Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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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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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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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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