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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

John Steinbeck

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
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
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
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
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
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 you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man

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