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United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968)

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. John Steinbeck »
I know this--a man got to do what he got to do. John Steinbeck »
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck »
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. John Steinbeck »
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck »
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. John Steinbeck »
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. John Steinbeck »
No one wants advice -- only corroboration. John Steinbeck »
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck »
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic. John Steinbeck »

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