To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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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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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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