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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
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
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World

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