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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
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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Death Sad Story Writing
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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Destroy Fighting Freedom Government Greatness Limitation Religion
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Development Transformation
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
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 wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
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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Appearance Poor Roots

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