John Steinbeck ✓

(1902–1968) novelist United States

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[Wikidata] American writer (1902–1968)... | [Wikipedia] John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors o

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• Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar. Burned
• It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which… Beautiful
• Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man. Choice
• ..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. Awful
• But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty… All
• You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too. Any
• People like you to be something, preferably what they are. Inspirational
• All great and precious things are lonely. All
• There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. Beauty
• The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. Fields
• Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of… Addition
• Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. Cleverness
• For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners,… Anymore
• When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech… Ate
• 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… Animal
• The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the… Experience
• Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. All
• An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams. Dream
• Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. Hardest
• Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! Clutch
• I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments Admire
• We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the… Attention
• I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to… American
• There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks… Beauty
• Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. Advice

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