John Steinbeck

“The mind is capable of any selfishness and it thinks unworthy things whether you want to or not. Best to admit it is a bad child rather than to pretend it is always a good one. Because a bad child can improve but a good one is a liar and nothing can improve a liar.” - Nobel Prize laureate John Steinbeck in a letter to his third wife Elaine Scott dated 28 July 1949. https://x.com/NobelPrize/status/2082076376568397882