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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 SteinbeckHe wondered why he stayed with her. Just pure laziness, he guessed. He — John Steinbeck
"He wondered why he stayed with her. Just pure laziness, he guessed. He didnt want to go through the emotional turmoil of leaving her. In spite of himself hed worry about her and it was too much trouble. Hed need another woman right away and that took a lot of talking and arguing and persuading. It was different just to lay a girl but he would need a woman around, and that was the difference. You got used to one and it was less trouble.[…] But there was another reason too. She loved him. She really did. And he knew it. And you cant leave a thing like that. Its a structure and it has an architecture, and you cant leave it without tearing off a piece of yourself. So if you want to remain whole you stay no matter how much you may dislike staying. Juan was not a man who fooled himself very much."
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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