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The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
John Steinbeck
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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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A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
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I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
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How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)
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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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In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
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