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

John Steinbeck

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Alive Scars
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 am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Reality Romance War
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
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
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
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
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
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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People Yourself
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

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