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I guess there are never enough books.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Screenwriter
War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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...to find where you are going, you must know where you are.
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Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.
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Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.
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Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.
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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.
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