“Can you disbelieve in something you don't know about?[…] It isn't that I don't believe but that I don't know.”

— John Steinbeck , book The Winter of Our Discontent

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

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American writer 1902–1968

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