A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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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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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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