What did John Steinbeck mean by: I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand. John Steinbeck Writer · USA Copy
+ Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Steinbeck, Growth, Struggle, Worthwhile, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Death was a friend, and sleep was Death’s brother. Author, August 10, 2023January 2, 2025, John Steinbeck, Family, Friendship, Mortality, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ I guess I’m trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Steinbeck, Opportunity, Regret, Seize, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Steinbeck, Bravery, Mortality, Risk, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Steinbeck, Happiness, Illusion, Perception, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Texas is not a state – it’s a state of mind. Author, July 10, 2023January 2, 2025, John Steinbeck, Culture, Identity, Perception, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There’s luck or fate or something else that takes over. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Steinbeck, Fate, Intentions, Luck, 0 John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. Author, December 27, 2022December 25, 2024, John Steinbeck, Actions, Sin, Virtue, 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
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset