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My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

Thomas Steinbeck

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Thomas Steinbeck
Age: 72 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: August 11
Novelist
War Photographer
Writer
New York City
New York
Thomas Myles Steinbeck
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