"If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces." "So it would," she said. "So it wi… - John Steinbeck

"If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces."
"So it would," she said. "So it will."
"I don't believe you," Ewain said. "But for the sake of the discussion, what then, my lady?"
"Why then — then the pieces would have to be put together again."
"By such as these—?"
"Who else? Who indeed else?"

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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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