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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

John Steinbeck

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
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
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 wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind Word Writing
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
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
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Change Hide Men
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

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