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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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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!
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If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.
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You got to live before you can afford to die.
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Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.
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A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us.
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Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.
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Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
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Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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