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Literature Quotes by John Steinbeck
- The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.
- Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.
- Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
- The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.
- I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
- Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
- The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and…
- I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret…
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