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

John Steinbeck

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
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.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Art Word Writing

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