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daniparenteau: "Trish Triumpho Sullivan, owner of Salinas’ Downtown Book & Sound, said the newspaper’s retreat feels especially ironic in the hometown of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who once worked as a war correspondent."

rsslldnphy: Did you know that John Steinbeck was famous for stealing food from other writers? He was always eating the grapes of Roth.

radionic_powers: John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters.

ivaniano44: On page 105 of 167 of De ratones y hombres, by John Steinbeck

rizacitak251: “I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” –John Steinbeck

PatrickZircher: "She went to nineteenth century estates with Jane Austen. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and California with John Steinbeck." Which, knowing the themes of these authors, changes the original context considerably.

ted_nielsen: “So many scholars have spent so much time trying to establish whether Arthur ever existed at all that they have lost track of the single truth that he exists over and over.” John Steinbeck, Letter. Jan 3, 1957

W_TripSolution: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

SocioTrip: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

ahmad05094370: “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” –John Steinbeck

alanfrow: “Californians have a virus of restlessness - the incurable urge to be some place else.” John Steinbeck Lord, cure us of the incurable.

MBrenna41479081: Local Goodwill was throwing away a John Steinbeck first edition, second print of The Grapes of Wrath for $1. I had to save it for $1.

MarnieSantiago6: 1. The Bible 2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

QuotesToolbox: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck 230327 Click to check out our entire quotes collection

idristerman337: “I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” –John Steinbeck

AWLies: God bless Wes Anderson for noticing how much Tom Hanks is starting to look like John Steinbeck

growthhub_: 14. East Of Eden by John Steinbeck Genre: Family Drama Lessons: • Evil is an innate human problem • Free choice is something we all share • We overvalue what we know & are blind to what we don't know

Siapou1: "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit." — John Steinbeck

scottslayton: Been reading "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck over the last week or so. What a beautiful and heartbreaking novel.

AlecMacGillis: This is what it's come to: A city of 163,000, hometown of John Steinbeck, with *zero* newspaper reporters.

W_TripSolution: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

qaz123gaz623: “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” –John Steinbeck

SocioTrip: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

dabeard: Native son John Steinbeck “understood the power of a story to create positive change. Without a local paper in our city, we’ve lost the power to tell the stories of people in our city and the city itself. We’ve lost the power of storytelling.”

DavidBlenko: I can’t consider you a friend when out of every contact there comes some intentionally wounding thing ~ John Steinbeck

Cupra_Neria: When two people meet, each one is changed by the other, so you've got two new people... // It's all a matter of trust... The surest way to understand that you can trust someone is to trust them... It's simple, it's us who make it difficult... "John Steinbeck"

hilmiyildiz858: “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” –John Steinbeck

mityava17: Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck

NadiaAwriter: "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." ― John Steinbeck

FlexTardigrade: I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency: A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America.

nuhkilic609: “I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” –John Steinbeck

FlexTardigrade: For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time- stones of events t give a memory past dimension. Eventlessness collapses time. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America.

6_09_am: His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. – John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Resqranch: “A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.” — John Steinbeck.

dr_questen: “A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.” — John Steinbeck.

kala_thestylist: “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck

chandlerj920: “Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.” - John Steinbeck

JamiePGood: Day 2) ChatGPT Plus I asked ChatGPT model 3.5 and the newer model 4 to write a short story in the style, tone and mannerisms of the writer John Steinbeck. Dusty sun-baked Californian landscapes abound. But which is GPT 3-5 and which is GPT4? Can you tell the difference?

RealJimProctor: John Steinbeck made me fall in love with reading. Frank Herbert made me fall in love with Science Fiction. J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter F. Hamilton inspired me to start writing.

BCornejo_Lujan: The hometown of John Steinbeck has no local newspaper journalist left. " the only original content from Salinas comes in the form of paid obituaries, making death virtually the only sign of life..."

anaceballos_: The California newspaper that has no reporters left. The newspaper’s retreat feels especially ironic in the hometown of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who once worked as a war correspondent, a Salinas resident said.

SocioTrip: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

Shruti_my_voice: “To be alive at all is to have scars.” - John Steinbeck

param108: "Of mice and men" by John Steinbeck. A tragedy in a 100 pages, deals with friendship, responsibility and loss.

thealleycat7: Book Review: Of Mice and Men by: John Steinbeck

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vedatcitak620: “I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” –John Steinbeck

IgnitePaul: "The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost." - John Steinbeck

fine8jake_todd: “All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up,” John Steinbeck wrote on New Year’s Day 1941, as the world was coming undone by its deadliest war. “It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.”

gpatrickhubbard: "There's a capacity for appetite that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy." from East of Eden - John Steinbeck

BlkCarSrvcs: People don’t take trips, trips take people. - John Steinbeck

azooz22fa3: “I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” –John Steinbeck

salman123451771: “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” –John Steinbeck

tevfikacar797: “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” –John Steinbeck

hatredholic: After reading 'Of Mice and Man' by John Steinbeck. When was kid, hadn't had no specific touching back then. But... now, can't read without some of the tears drop...

ragipergon24: “I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” –John Steinbeck

DirkMarais3: 1)"Have you, friends, and readers heard of the book 'Of mice and men?' It was written by John Steinbeck and is widely considered a classic. It’s been on numerous lists for the best novel ever. Some of you might have read it. BANNED.."BochaBlue, PalmerReport.

SocioTrip: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

garci32: “Of mice and men" a book written by John Steinbeck and is widely considered a classic, has now been banned by the Republicans They also want to ban the Bible !!

vedatcitak620: “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” –John Steinbeck

KhattryRatan: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. — John Steinbeck ARCHANA KE ANGARE DIL SE

Babsolanke: Imagine the result of 2 snakes(not figurative snakes) fornicating. This is inspired by something I read in one of John Steinbeck's writings

Rome_Colt45: "I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands." - John Steinbeck

TrueQuotation: So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence. — John Steinbeck

ScozzariFrank: Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. —John Steinbeck—

CVSchuyler: “A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck

Vanesahicetnunc: 4 of 5 stars to La perla by John Steinbeck

KingMikeMusic: “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” ― John Steinbeck Thankfully the family are ok but how many have to suffer before wars end?

hughhewitt: Epic fantasy succeeds from the greatest —Tolkien, Rowling— to very successful but hardly high art series by many authors including Sanderson b/c they all, to one degree or another, work with what John Steinbeck called the “one story.” Not everyone can read “East of Eden.”

tsitatite: If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. ~John Steinbeck

ragipergon24: “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” –John Steinbeck

D_Kuehn: The world doesn't need the 500th paper on Buchanan and club theory, they need the first paper on Buchanan and "one person one vote," or the first paper on Buchanan and John Steinbeck, or the first paper on Buchanan and Australian intergovernmental grants. 2/2

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W_TripSolution: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

ahmad05094370: “I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.” –John Steinbeck

BelindaGreb: "Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass." John Steinbeck Belinda Greb Photography

FoxedQuarterly: ‘I don’t know if these books made me want to be a writer, but they certainly made the life of a shiftless layabout seem attractive, & what are novels for, if not to open our eyes to the alternative lives on offer?’ Mick Herron on John Steinbeck, Issue 66

SocioTrip: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

pattipetey22: Here are 5 of the best entertaining fiction books on revenge to (help) get you back to happy! The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) East of Eden (John Steinbeck) Without Remorse (Tom Clancy) Natchez Burning (Trilogy) (Greg Iles) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

barryefields: “Most of our vices are attempted shortcuts to love.” - John Steinbeck

westiestylz: Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello wrecking shit. Read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Amazing book. This song stems from it.

mesmosdubsbr: - John Steinbeck: Bruno Camargo

schroeder69iaxu: Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck KUHT442

Jukarsabe: 4 of 5 stars to Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

AllOnFire: Paddywax Library Collection John Steinbeck Scented Soy Wax Candle, 6.5-Ounce, Smoked Birch & Amber

brainpicker: Steinbeck on the difficult art of the friend breakup

brainpickings: Steinbeck on the difficult art of the friend breakup

BsdPredictions: In the final chapter, Nakahara Chuuya and John Steinbeck have a panel where they hold hands.

Funny_Face84: “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.” ― John Steinbeck

MagnusPraxis: The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating of agony of a lie is never lost - John Steinbeck

FendiGan: East of Eden - John Steinbeck, just a perfect book, received so many new perspectives and schools of thought throughout a strong but tragic story. 5/5

ahmad05094370: “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” –John Steinbeck

PDToolbox: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.-- John Steinbeck 221222 Click to check out our entire quotes collection

W_TripSolution: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

ragipergon24: “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.” –John Steinbeck

FlexTardigrade: For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness? John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America.

FlexTardigrade: So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America.



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