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John Steinbeck föddes den February 27th 1902 och dog den 20 December 1968 - Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962.
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 I believe that love cannot be bought except with love

 I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

 I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

 I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

 I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction

 I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

 I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

 I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

 I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.

 I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

 I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

 If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones.

 In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.


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