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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Steinbeck

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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
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
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
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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Himself Human Literature Men
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing

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