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

John Steinbeck

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
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
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
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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Exploration Freedom Human Mindset Value World
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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Appearance Poor Roots
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Goodness Growth Inspirational Struggle Worth
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
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
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Sad Story Writing

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