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All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck

You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fools Literature Man
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
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
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECK

Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight God Philosophy Prayer
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul

All great and precious things are lonely.

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