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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
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And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
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Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.
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