Go through the motions, Adam.” “What motions?” “Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. - John Steinbeck

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Go through the motions, Adam.” “What motions?” “Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

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About John Steinbeck

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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William Faulkner Ursula K. Le Guin Norman Mailer E. M. Forster Mark Twain

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