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

John Steinbeck

It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
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
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK

Illusion Religion Socialism
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK

Born Lost Myself
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK

Kind Love Understand
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Human Literature Men
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECK

Mistake Ourselves Shine
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK

Anger Company Greatness

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