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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

John Steinbeck

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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Acceptable Believe Courage Hurt Lying Punishment Time
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Paper Whole Writing
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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Believe Life Myself People See
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
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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Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Book Entertainment Friendship Talk
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Death Failure Love Men Talent
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity

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