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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck

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
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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Conversion Men World
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
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
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Himself Listening People Story
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Experience Government Hate Nation
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
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
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
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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Help World Yourself
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Giving Sick Simple
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
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
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
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
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
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
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Advice Deep Yourself
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 was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
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
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See

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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