Hell Yes, John Steinbeck

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[wellconstructedsentences]

Look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.

The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck

[haly-reads]

october 29, '23: today's book mail!

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east of eden, john steinbeck

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east of eden, john steinbeck

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east of eden, john steinbeck

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east of eden, john steinbeck

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loving a false idea – east of eden, john steinbeck

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adam and charles (and a few unspoken words) – east of eden, john steinbeck

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east of eden, john steinbeck

[brutecakes]

Badness must originate in an idea or an ambition.

The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck  (via flordemal)

[brutecakes]

Most lives extend in a curve. There is a rise of ambition, a rounded peak of maturity, a gentle downward slope of disillusion and last a flattened grade of waiting for death.

The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck  (via flordemal)

[jarrettfuller]

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes, but by no means always, find the way to do it. You must perceive the excellence that makes a good story good or the errors that makes a bad story. For a bad story is only an ineffective story.

John Steinbeck on writing (via jarrettfuller)

[hellyesjohnsteinbeck]

What is your favorite John Steinbeck work?

East of Eden

The Winter of Our Discontent

The Grapes of Wrath

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Cannery Row

Of Mice and Men

Other (feel free to comment)

Voting ended onJul 11, 2023

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“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything.”

— John Steinbeck, from East of Eden (Viking Press, 1952)

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

I have always from the time I was a child felt a curious excitement walking in new unmarked snow or frost. It is like being first in a new world, a deep, satisfying sense of discovery of something clean and new, unused, undirtied.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

[hellyesjohnsteinbeck]

“I don’t know whether I love tea or the ceremony of it.”

— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

[hopventure]

“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It’s not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.” ~ John Steinbeck