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.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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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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