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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
Steinbeck
Human
Registers
Humans
Gauges
Thing
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Register
Frightening
Mass
Perhaps
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Dials

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