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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

John Steinbeck

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Difficult Experience Life Problem
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Education Human Inspirational Mindset Spirit Teacher Teaching
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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

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