” We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - “Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least, thats the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought”“
-John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th Anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
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Steinbeck is hands down my favorite author.