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Quotes from The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights — John Steinbeck

1902–1968 United States

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Most people live in a half-dream all their lives and call it reality.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

An artist should be open on all sides to every kind of light and darkness.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

Writers are a sorry lot. The best you can say of them is that they are better than actors and that's not much.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

[On writing:] It is properly called the lonesomest profession in the world.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

I can tell you one thing I have finally faced through — the Arthurian cycle and practically all lasting and deep-seated folklore is a mixture of profundity and childish nonsense. If you keep the profundity and throw out the nonsense, some essence is lost. These are dream stories, fixed and universal dreams, and they have the inconsistency of dreams.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Steinbeck (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.