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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
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
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
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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Death Sad Story Writing
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
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.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
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
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World

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