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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.

John Steinbeck

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
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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Death Sad Story Writing
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
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
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
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
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 without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing

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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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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