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You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.
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Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
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A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us.
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A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
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