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 As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. All war is a symptom of man`s failure as a thinking animal.
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I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.
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Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.
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No one wants advice, only collaboration.
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It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
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It doesn`t matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can`t understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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Trivia
One of only two Nobel laureates for literature to be nominated for a writing Academy Award. George Bernard Shaw won an Oscar for Pygmalion (1938) while Steinbeck was nominated three times for Lifeboat (1944), A Medal for Benny (1945) (with Jack Wagner) and Viva Zapata! (1952).
Was denied a military commission in World War II due to his left-wing politics. His future collaborator, Elia Kazan, similarly was turned down during the war due to his own radical past. Both served the war effort in a civilian capacity, Steinbeck as a journalist and propagandist.
Steinbeck, a noted liberal whom the government suspected was a member of the Communist Party, was outraged by what he regarded as director Alfred Hitchcock`s racism as manifested in his condescension towards the George `Joe` Spencer character played by Canada Lee.
Two sons with 2nd wife: Thom and John IV. Only Thom survives as of this writing (June 2005). He has recently published a book of short-stories, and is said to be working on a novel.
Steinbeck, one of the seminal American authors of the 20th century, was humiliated when the N.Y. Times excoriated the Swedish Academy for naming him the winner of the Nobel Prize Literature for 1962, saying there were more deserving writers to honor. Humble and blunt, when asked whether he deserved it at his press conference after receiving the news of the prize, he answered, "No." The criticism that he was undeserving of literature`s greatest prize was soon picked up by the American literati, further compounding the wound. While Steinbeck had been enormously popular in his home country, penning four #1 best sellers, his critical reputation had sagged since the mid-1940s. However, he had remained a highly respected author outside the U.S., particularly among those who enjoyed his harsh critique of American materialism, although he was bewildered by foreign fans who still believed that the U.S. was the Depression-era America he had described in the 1930s. He was particularly beloved by Scandinavians for his WWII novella "The Moon is Down," a 1942 propaganda piece about the Norwegian resistance. In fact, so high was his esteem, he was singled out for extra-special treatment during the Stockholm ceremonies. Though that pleased him, he remained bitter about the criticism his fellow Americans had put him through until the end of his life.
Born at 3:00pm-PST.
According to his biographer Jay Parini and the New York Times, Steinbeck in the mid-1990s was the most popular deceased American writer, with 750,00 copies of his works selling annually. His popularity has not diminished over the years but has rather increased, particularly after Oprah Winfrey made his "East of Eden" the first selection of her revived book club in 2003. The book immediately became the #2 bestseller on amazon.com, and Steinbeck`s publisher, Penguin Group USA, printed 600,000 new copies. Normally, the book sells fewer than 50,000 copies annually. It is a remarkable phenomenon considering that the book originally was a #1 best seller when it was published in 1952!.
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