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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.

John Steinbeck

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECK

Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Perfection
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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Explanation Literature Lonely Trying
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
There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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Alcohol Taste World
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
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
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
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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Believe Love Myself
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Journey Space Time
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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Moments People See
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Goodness Lose Love Right
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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Impossible Reading
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Kind Love Understand
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Deep Season Summer Winter
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Art Word Writing
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Believe Inspirational Man Strong Woman Empowerment Women
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
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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Appearance Poor Roots
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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Death Failure Love Men Talent
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
All great and precious things are lonely.
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Alone Greatness Lonely
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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Empathy Feeling People Understand
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 shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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Forget Imagination Revenge Way
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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Pain Secret
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK

Dog Human Thinking

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