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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

John Steinbeck

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
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
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
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
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

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

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