You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECKIf 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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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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 great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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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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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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