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JOHN STEINBECKIt’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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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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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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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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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.
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
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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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