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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.

John Steinbeck

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
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
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
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
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

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