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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.

John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECK

Journey Space Time
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Deep Yourself
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
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
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Book Himself Talk
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
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
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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Himself Listening People Story
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Reading Reality Writing
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECK

People Yourself

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