Montag, 5. Oktober 2009

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dali48 and private tuition and writing books and photographing a gold fish in Erkrath etc...


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"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work - walks up in the stairs of the concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments"... (from The Grapes of Wrath)

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was born in Salinas, California. His native region of Monterey Bay was later the setting for most of his fiction." - We were poor people with a hell of a lot of land which made us think we were rich people," - the author once recalled. Steinbeck's father was a county treasurer. From his mother, a teacher, Steinbeck learned to love books... (J. Steinbeck, Other Ressources 1962)

"Free Men cannot start a war," Steinbeck wrote,"but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat! Heard men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the heard men who win battles and the free men who win wars"...

Kazan (director) sent Dean (James) to see Steinbeck, who considered him a snotty kid - but said he was Cal (a role in East of Eden) "sure as hell"...

In 1950 Steinbeck married Elaine Scott - the ex-wife of Randolph Scott, a Western star. Steinbeck's son John had problems in later years with drugs and alcohol - he died in 1991...


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