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

John Steinbeck

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
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Born Lost Myself
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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Literature Lonely Soul
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
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
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People World
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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Last Listening Myself Rule Story
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
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
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
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Advice Business Entrepreneur
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
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
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
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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Circus Equality Women
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
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
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Animal Failure Men War
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time

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