“Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary — do you hear? Who are you in there?”

— John Steinbeck, book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III

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American writer 1902–1968

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