A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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.
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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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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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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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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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