If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.John Steinbeck
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
Novelist · 1902 – 1968
John Steinbeck was an American novelist whose works, including 'The Grapes of Wrath' (1939), 'Of Mice and Men' (1937) and 'East of Eden' (1952), portray the lives of working people in California. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
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