To be alive at all is to have scars. ✨ John Steinbeck (2008). The Wint…

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To be alive at all is to have scars. ✨ John Steinbeck (2008). The Winter of Our Discontent, p.101, Penguin
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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ✨ John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). Conversations with John Steinbeck, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other. ✨ John Steinbe … ▶
It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing. ✨ John Steinbeck (1994). Novels and Stories, 1932-1937
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. ✨ John Steinbeck (2012). The Portable Steinbeck, p.42, Penguin
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. ✨ John Steinbeck (1989). Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, p.160, Penguin

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