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.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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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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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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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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