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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
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
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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Help Reading Reality Writing
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
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
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
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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
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
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual

All great and precious things are lonely.

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