If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen 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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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.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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