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Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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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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It don't cost money to ask.
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I think I love you, Cal. -Abra I'm not good. -Cal Because you're not good. -Abra
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I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
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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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Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.
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This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.
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It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.
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Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
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