It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if t…

John Steinbeck
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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. ✨ Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series. Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter On Intent, 1977.
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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. ✨ Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series. Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter On Intent, 1977.

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