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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.

John Steinbeck

You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECK

Ideas Thinking Yourself
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
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
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

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