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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

John Steinbeck

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Himself Talk
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Listening People Story
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECK

Experience Government Hate Nation
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECK

Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK

Family Parents
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret

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