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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

John Steinbeck

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dream Excellence Writing
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
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
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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Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
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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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
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

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