Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECKI find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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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 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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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