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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

John Steinbeck

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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Lonely People 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
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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Confused Government People Tolerance
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
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
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
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
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
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
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
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Himself Human Literature Men

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