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There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
Steinbeck
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Medicine
Patient
Works
Ends
Thing
Pleasantly
Never
Backward
Fixed

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