“If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces…[Merlin replies]…So it would; so it will … then the pieces will be put together again by such as destroyed it.”

— John Steinbeck , book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

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American writer 1902–1968

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