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This book isn't perfect fir there are things that drive me nuts about it. There were numerous long passages of moralizing which I just flat out disagreed with. Yet Steinbeck is such a brilliant writer with such painstakingly clear details that I will I overlook it. Who says you had to agree with an author to recognize that this is a masterpiece of American literature?
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This book isn't perfect fir there are things that drive me nuts about it. There were numerous long passages of moralizing which I just flat out disagreed with. Yet Steinbeck is such a brilliant writer with such painstakingly clear details that I will I overlook it. Who says you had to agree with an author to recognize that this is a masterpiece of American literature?
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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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