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All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck

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
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
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
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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All great and precious things are lonely.

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