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"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was upon me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job."

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About John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was an American novelist whose works portrayed social and economic hardship in twentieth-century America. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

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