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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

John Steinbeck

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 shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
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
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Change Kind 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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing

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