“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck
American author
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception”. Wikipedia
Born: February 27, 1902, Salinas, California, United States
Died: December 20, 1968, New York City, New York, United States
Plays: Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath
Spouse: Elaine Anderson Steinbeck (m. 1950–1968), Gwyndolyn Conger (m. 1943–1948), Carol Henning (m. 1930–1943)
Quotes
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.