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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Help Reading Reality Writing
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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
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
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
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
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself

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