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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck

To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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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Book Himself Talk
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
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
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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Confused Government People Tolerance
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
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
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons

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