All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECKAn answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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.
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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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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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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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