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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking
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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Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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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Circus Equality Women
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
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECK

Advice Business Entrepreneur
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
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

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