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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

John Steinbeck

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
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
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
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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Change Hide Men
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Death Sad Story Writing
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
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
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand

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