John Steinbeck's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

[sladermouse]

I thank the Swedish Academy for finding my work worthy of this highest honor

Comments

[louthewerewolf]

"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature."

I'VE certainly never seen the perfection of man or even anything close to it, so that might mean every writer is a failure?

yea

[sladermouse]

agreed, but im not sure if he means perfectibility in the sense of moral perfection...at least thats as far as i can tell from what ive read from his body of work