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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

John Steinbeck

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
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
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
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
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom

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