#john steinbeck

[sskk-manifesto]

WHEN IS HE COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wedarkacademia]

[motifcollector]

Succession 4.10, "With Open Eyes"; John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[heavensghost]

‘And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.’ - John Steinbeck, east of Eden

my art

[intellectualpoaching]

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[sicknessinmotion]

still alone. still lonely.

charles bukowski // anne carson // the others (2001) // john steinbeck // the others (2001) // charles bukowski.

[thoughtkick]

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[amythedemisimp]

Bungou Stray Dogs Wan!

Chapter 161 (English translation)

Translation, cleaning, type-setting by: @amythedemisimp (me)

Chapter illustrated by: KanaiNeco

Raws: here

Sorry if it looks a bit rushed, I did this quickly because I wanted to translate it and show it to everyone as soon as possible -- Fyodor is finally appearing in a Wan chapter as one of the main characters!!! I'm so happy!!!

[thehopefulquotes]

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[nobeerreviews]

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

-- John Steinbeck

(London)

[mostlyghostie]

I loved drawing this one! Great books, really cool, bold vintage covers.

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[perfectquote]

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[thebarroomortheboy]

John Steinbeck was particularly enamored with the performance of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, feeling that he perfectly encapsulated everything he wanted to convey with this character. The two became good friends. Indeed Fonda did a reading at Steinbeck's funeral.

HENRY FONDA in THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) | dir. John Ford

[lillyli-74]

I’m just pain covered with skin.

~ John Steinbeck

[thesofthuman]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[thoughtkick]

Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

John Steinbeck