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To be alive at all is to have scars.

John Steinbeck

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECK

Conversion Men World
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
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
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying

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