Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about t…

John Steinbeck
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. ✨ John Steinbeck (1990). Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters, p.107, Penguin
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. ✨ John Steinbeck (1990). Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters, p.107, Penguin

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