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.
JOHN STEINBECKHow 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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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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