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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
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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Change Kind Word Writing
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents

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