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 STEINBECKIf you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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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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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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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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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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