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

John Steinbeck

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
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
Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Ambition Judgment One Liner Time
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
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Fools Literature Man
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
The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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Anger Company Greatness
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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Dog Human Thinking
You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Ideas Thinking Yourself
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Defeat Destroy Greatness Success Victory World
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
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
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
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Mistake Ourselves Shine
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
A man without words is a man without thought.
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Life Men Word
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Dream Excellence Writing
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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Feet Horse Men Spiritual
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
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
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
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
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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Brain Weapons
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
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

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