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«Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Football
| Keywords:
Against A, banners, field game, football field, Football games, football team, sectional, Texas
«Maybe it?s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. It?s impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. I?d like to pin down a few while they are still wet.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Research,
Writing
| Keywords:
Bright Future, colored, colorless, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, notebook, notebooks, ordered, pebbles, piece of work, piece of writing, pin, pin down, pockets, sparkle, sparkling, washed
«In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Growing up
| Keywords:
filling, grapes, The Grapes, vintage
«The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.»
«So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrived, bottles, Coffee and, cream soda, dish, omelet, Onions, ordered, pickle, pickles, slice, soda, toast, tomato, tomatoes, watermelon, watermelons
«No one wants advice - only corroboration.»
«The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cheerfully, devote, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, starving, techniques, the Techniques
«Somewhere in the world there is 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 add victory.»
«American cities are like badger holes ringed with trash»
«The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
American Girl, contemptible, Her husband, servant girl
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