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The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
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Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
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No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.
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It don't cost money to ask.
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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
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Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
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You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
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People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.
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They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
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We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
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I guess there are never enough books.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
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The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
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There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.
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