For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or ch… - John Steinbeck

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For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

John Steinbeck

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John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (27 February 1902 – 20 December 1968) was an American writer. A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, his works include the novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and the novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Great Depression.

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Birth Name: Jeffery Ernest Steinbeck

Alternative Names: John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. • John Ernst Steinbeck • John Ernest Steinbeck • John Ernst Steinbeck Jr • Steinbeck

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For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. - John Steinbeck

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