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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

John Steinbeck

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
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
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
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
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
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving 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

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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