An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECKIn utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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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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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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All great and precious things are lonely.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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A man without words is a man without thought.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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