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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

~John Steinbeck

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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.

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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 27th, 1902

Died: December 20th, 1968

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