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

John Steinbeck

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
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
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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

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