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...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
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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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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Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.
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There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.
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Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
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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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