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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck

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
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
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
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Anger Children Men
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons

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