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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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 These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

 This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

 This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

 Time is the only critic without ambition.

 Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

 We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''

 We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

 When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.

 Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

 Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

 You give me much good counsel. I am tired of it.


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