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“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
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“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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