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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

John Steinbeck

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
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
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
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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Death Failure Love Men Talent
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

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

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