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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Screenwriter
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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.
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You're buying years of work, toil in the sun you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
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Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.
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Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
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Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
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A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.
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Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.
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Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
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Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.
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I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.
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So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
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We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us.
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It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.
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Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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