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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
JOHN STEINBECK

Himself Listening People Story

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

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