If a story is not about the hearer he or she will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interestingonly the deeply personal and...

If a story is not about the hearer he or she will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interestingonly the deeply personal and familiar.
John Steinbeck

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Good God what a mess of draggletail impulses a man isand a woman too I guess.
- John Steinbeck

If a story is not about the hearer he or she will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interestingonly the deeply personal and familiar. John Steinbeck

If a story is not about the hearer he or she will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interestingonly the deeply personal and familiar.
John Steinbeck