American - Author | February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
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