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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
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

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

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