"The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spiritâ€”for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."

-- John Steinbeck

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“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
“It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.”
“as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.”
“The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.”
“Itâ€™s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.”
“For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.”
“God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.”
“Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.”

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