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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

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
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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
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
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
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
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk

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.

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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.

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