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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

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
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
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
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
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
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
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

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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