John Steinbeck Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
They were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness
I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.
The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.
Muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him - goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.
There is no loneliness like that of one who can only give and no anger like that of those who only receive and hate the weight of debt.
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.
And the owners not only did not work the farms any more, many of them had never seen the farms they owned.
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:
He was very rich; he bought eggs to throw at a Chinaman. And one of those eggs missed the Chinaman and hit a policeman. So, Danny was in jail.
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
Things that happen are of no importance. But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.
It seemed to me that the earth was generous and outgoing here in the heartland, and perhaps the people took a cue from it.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.
Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart ...
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
Woman can change better'n man," Ma said soothingly. "Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
I don't know. It's like getting up in the morning. I don't want to get up but I don't want to stay in bed either.
The gilded chairs covered with their worn tapestry were set about stiffly like too many servants with nothing to do.
When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were a boiled almond.
And when a man's feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something, and Abel was in the way of his anger.
Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
I know it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world.
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat. These
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world
that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book.
There was a wall against learning. A man wanted his children to read, to figure, and that was enough. More might make them dissatisfied and flighty.