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John Steinbeck

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
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
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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Person Responsibility Space
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Fight Military
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
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 believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars

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