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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

John Steinbeck
War, Reality, Romance
John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.77, Penguin

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.

John Steinbeck
Confused, Book, Reality
John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.29, Penguin

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

John Steinbeck
Reality, Men, Discovery
John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.46, Penguin

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

John Steinbeck
Book, Reality, Design
John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.29, Penguin

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