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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
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
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
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
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
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
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism

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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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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