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John Steinbeck

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECK

Escape Life
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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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

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