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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Source: Accepting Nobel Prize, in Newsweek, 24 Dec 1962.
-- John Steinbeck, (Feb 27 1902-1968), US novelist; He aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farm workers in The Grapes of Wrath, 1939; won Nobel Prize, 1962.

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