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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

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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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Himself Listening People Story
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Circus Equality Women

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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