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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.
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