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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

John Steinbeck

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
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
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
How 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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Anger Children Men
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
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
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent

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