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

John Steinbeck

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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
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
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Book Himself Talk
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
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
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself

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

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