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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

John Steinbeck

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole 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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Book Himself Talk

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

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