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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

John Steinbeck

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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur

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