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

John Steinbeck

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
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
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste 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

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