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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

John Steinbeck

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
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECK

Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
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 know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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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Change Hide Men
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
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
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
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word

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