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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

John Steinbeck

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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
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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Death Sad Story Writing
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
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.
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Anger Children Men
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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

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