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"I cant read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. I couldnt read the proletarian crap that came out in the 30s; again you had sentimentalism — the poor oppressed workers."
John SteinbeckGive a critic an inch, he’ll write a play. — John Steinbeck
"Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play."
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
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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".
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"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."
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"Books aint no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody."
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"They come, an they quit an go on; an every damn one of ems got a little piece of land in his head. An never a God damn one of em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Everbody wants a little piece of lan. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. Its just in their head."
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"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success."
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"Guy dont need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he aint hardly ever a nice fella."
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