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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.

John Steinbeck

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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Change Kind Word Writing
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ignorance Men Stupidity
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECK

Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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.
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Change Hide Men
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
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
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
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
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
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.

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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.

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