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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

John Steinbeck

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
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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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
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
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
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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