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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

John Steinbeck

All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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Book Himself Talk
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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Death Failure Love Men Talent
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

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