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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

John Steinbeck

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECK

Moments People See
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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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alcohol Taste World
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
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 craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
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’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
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
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
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
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

Book Himself Talk

There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

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