“Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.”

— John Steinbeck, book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

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American writer 1902–1968

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