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

John Steinbeck

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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Ignorance Men Stupidity
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Illusion Religion Socialism
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
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
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
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Life Marriage Sex
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’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK

Hate Leaving Life
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
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
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Funny Hell Imagination Travel
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Corruption Fear Loss Power
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK

Deep Season Summer Winter

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