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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

John Steinbeck

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
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 STEINBECK

Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECK

Person Responsibility Space
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK

Illusion Religion Socialism
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
JOHN STEINBECK

Circus Equality Women
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECK

Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
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
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul

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