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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

John Steinbeck

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
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
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
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.
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Death Sad Story Writing
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
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

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