What did John Steinbeck mean by: I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. John Steinbeck Writer · USA Copy
+ Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans Author, September 6, 2023January 2, 2025, John Steinbeck, Exploration, Fear, Imagination, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ I know this… a man got to do what he got to do. Author, July 31, 2023January 2, 2025, John Steinbeck, Determination, Duty, Responsibility, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Steinbeck, Consequences, Destruction, Hubris, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ People like you to be something, preferably what they are. Author, June 29, 2023January 2, 2025, John Steinbeck, Conformity, Expectations, Identity, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Steinbeck, Courage, Criticism, Ignoring, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Steinbeck, Mathematics, Music, Writing, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ A man without words is a man without thought. Author, November 1, 2023January 2, 2025, John Steinbeck, Communication, Intellect, Perception, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. Author, September 3, 2023January 2, 2025, John Steinbeck, Boasting, Insecurity, Materialism, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
