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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

John Steinbeck

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
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
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
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
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
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking 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
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
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See

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