The following question is based on the excerpt from “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” by John Steinbeck.

John Steinbeck believed that writers follow a very important calling. Which of the following excerpts support this idea.
a.
“So there went the magic formula, the secret ingredient.”
b.
“I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectability of man has no dedication nor nor any membership in literature.”
c.
"He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement."
d.
“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed.”

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