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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

John Steinbeck

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
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
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
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
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
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

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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