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We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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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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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
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The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
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Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
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Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.
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To the heavens on the wings of a pig.
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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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We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.
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Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.
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And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
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