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" A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. "
Person
Struggle
Travel
" A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. "
Marriage
Control
You
" A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. "
Sad
Germ
Quicker
" Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. "
Still
Feet
Whistle
" Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. "
Write
Inch
Give
" I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. "
Grateful
Lion
Like
" Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. "
Like
You
Pretty
" 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. "
People
Need
Trouble
" I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. "
More
Everything
Hate
" 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. "
Artist
Mind
Great
" I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? "
Never
Why
My Life
" I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. "
You
Tool
Pencil
" I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. "
Literature
Believe
Dedication
" In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. "
Vintage
People
Wrath
" In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. "
Writer
Explain
Loneliness
" It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. "
Against
Man
Intelligence
" 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. "
Experience
Wisdom
Sleep
" It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. "
Face
Sick
Weak
" It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. "
Action
Death
Live
" I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. "
Lived
Like
Hell
" I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. "
I Am
Look
Nuts
" Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. "
Own
Steps
Trap
" Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. "
Man
Work
Universe
" Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. "
Travel
Space
Movement
" 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. "
Perfume
Men
Grass
" No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. "
Man
He
Best
" No one wants advice - only corroboration. "
Advice
Only
Wants
" One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. "
Many
Falling
Find
" Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. "
Corrupt
Loss
Fear
" Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. "
Team
Army
Texas
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