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

John Steinbeck

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

Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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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Book Himself Talk
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
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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Difficult Experience Life Problem
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word

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