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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

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
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
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
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
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.
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Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
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
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
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

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.

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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.

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