Author: John Steinbeck

Cites

• John Steinbeck (2)
  • IN: The Pearl (1947) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it
    FROM: NULL, (1947), Author, US
  • IN: The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I was nine, I took siege with King Arthur's fellowship of Knights, most proud and worshipful as any alive. --In those days there was a great lack of hardy and noble-hearted squires to bear shield and sword, to buckle harness, and to succor wounded knights. -- Then it chanced that squire-like duties fell to my siste of six yeas who for gentle prowess had no peer living. --It sometimes happens in sadness and pity that faithful service is not appreciated, so my fair and loyal sister remained unrecognised as a squire. --Wherefore this day I make amends within my power and raise her to knighthood and give her praise. --And from this hour she shall be called Sir Marie Steinbeck of Salinas Valley. --God give her worshipwithout peril. John Steinbeck of Monterey, Knight
    FROM: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, (1976), Book, US

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• Dave Eggers (1)
  • IN: The Circle (2013) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness
    FROM: East of Eden, (1952), Novel, US
• John Steinbeck (2)
  • IN: The Pearl (1947) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it
    FROM: NULL, (1947), Author, US
  • IN: The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I was nine, I took siege with King Arthur's fellowship of Knights, most proud and worshipful as any alive. --In those days there was a great lack of hardy and noble-hearted squires to bear shield and sword, to buckle harness, and to succor wounded knights. -- Then it chanced that squire-like duties fell to my siste of six yeas who for gentle prowess had no peer living. --It sometimes happens in sadness and pity that faithful service is not appreciated, so my fair and loyal sister remained unrecognised as a squire. --Wherefore this day I make amends within my power and raise her to knighthood and give her praise. --And from this hour she shall be called Sir Marie Steinbeck of Salinas Valley. --God give her worshipwithout peril. John Steinbeck of Monterey, Knight
    FROM: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, (1976), Book, US
• Joy Preble (1)
  • IN: The A-Word (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Texas is a state of mind.
    FROM: Travels with Charley: In Search of America, (1962), Book, US
• Laura Restrepo (1)
  • IN: A tale of the Impossible (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Strange things happen to people who are fleeing from terror (...); some are cruel, and others are so beautiful that faith is renewed.
    FROM: The Grapes of Wrath, (1939), Novel, US
• Gae Polisner (1)
  • IN: The Pull of Gravity (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lennie broke in. "But not us! An' why? Because... because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." He laughed delightedly.
    FROM: Of Mice and Men, (1937), Novel, US
• Meena Kandasamy (1)
  • IN: The Gypsy Goddess (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Slaughter and terror did not stop them. How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him -- he has known a fear beyond every other.
    FROM: Grapes of Wrath, (1939), Novel, US
• James Crumley (1)
  • IN: The Final Country (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.
    FROM: Travels with Charley, (1962), Book, US
• Caroline Zancan (1)
  • IN: Local Girls (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All of them had restlessness in common.
    FROM: East of Eden, (1952), Novel, US
• Willy Vlautin (1)
  • IN: Lean on Pete (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
    FROM: On Intent, Writers at Work, (1977), Essay, US
• Randy Wayne White (1)
  • IN: Deep Blue (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
    FROM: Sea of Cortez, (2009), Book, US
• Cynan Jones (1)
  • IN: Everything I found on the Beach (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things... It meant that he was half insane and half god."
    FROM: The Pearl, (1947), Novel, UK
• Jack and McKee, Lucky Ketchum (1)
  • IN: I'm Not Sam (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
    FROM: Sweet Thursday, (1954), Novel, US
• T. C. Boyle (1)
  • IN: The Tortilla Curtain (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They ain't human. A human being wouldn't live like they do. A human being couldn't stand it to be so dirty and miserable.
    FROM: The Grapes of Wrath, (1939), Novel, US
• Craig Johnson (1)
  • IN: As the Crow Flies (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Indians survived our open intention of wiping them out, and since the tide turned they have even weathered our good intentions toward them, which can be much more deadly.
    FROM: America and Americans, (1966), Book, US
• Rose Tremain (1)
  • IN: The Road Home (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How can we live, without our lives?
    FROM: The Grapes of Wrath, (1939), Novel, US