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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

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
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Hide Men
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
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Empathy Feeling People Understand

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