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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

John Steinbeck

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
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
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
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Feeling Yourself
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Change Deep People Philosophy
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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Art Greatness Human Teacher Teaching
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Hate Leaving Life
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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Escape Life
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
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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Help Reading Reality Writing
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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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Animal Couple Ideas Inspirational Wisdom
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
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Anger Growth People Soul
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Darkness Grief Light Loss
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Change Hide Men
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

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