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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."
"It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way."

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".
"Books aint no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody."
"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"
"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."
"The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage."
"The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business."
"Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play."