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Steinbeck Celebrates Our Perfectibility

  • Writer: @ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
    @ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
  • Dec 26, 2020
  • 1 min read


John Steinbeck's Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962:


"The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit -- for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectability of man has no dedication or membership in literature."

 
 
 

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