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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
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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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A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
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I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.
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Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
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I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.
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We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
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A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
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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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Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.
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Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
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It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
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A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.
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