The techniques of opening ...

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
 John Steinbeck

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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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If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
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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.
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If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.
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Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.
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