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

John Steinbeck

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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Help Hurt People Poor Trouble
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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See Truth Writing
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Fight God Philosophy Prayer
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Family Parents

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