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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
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

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