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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

John Steinbeck

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
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
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
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
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

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