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Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.
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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I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
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Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
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When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong. - Muley
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
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