I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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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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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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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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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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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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