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It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. — John Steinbeck

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell. — John Steinbeck

taxed to the limit the pitiless logic — John Steinbeck

The human is the only guilty animal. — John Steinbeck

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. — John Steinbeck

How we build," Pilon cried. "How our dreams lead us. I — John Steinbeck

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. — John Larroquette

to follow. "I gotta be settin' out the — John Steinbeck

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to. — John Steinbeck

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living. — John Steinbeck

Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is. — John Steinbeck

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. — John Steinbeck

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. — John Steinbeck

Where the rich lead,the poor will follow, or try to. — John Steinbeck

And in the summer the river didn't run at all above ground. — John Steinbeck

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language. — John Steinbeck

Money always removes the charge of craziness. — John Steinbeck

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. — John Steinbeck

You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away. — John Steinbeck

There are some times ... when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow. — John Steinbeck

and the night moved restlessly about the house — John Steinbeck

Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'. — John Steinbeck

Thou art a peanut. — John Steinbeck

Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. — John Steinbeck

To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there — John Steinbeck

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.. — John Steinbeck

Strange things happened to them ... some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever. — John Steinbeck

A dog...is a bond between strangers. — John Steinbeck

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one. — John Steinbeck

All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck

The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with. — John Steinbeck

You can only fight Fate so far, and when you give in to it you're very strong; because all of your force flows in one direction. — John Steinbeck

There's a capacity for appetite ... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy — John Steinbeck

They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin. — John Steinbeck

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck

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. — John Steinbeck

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. — John Steinbeck

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. — John Steinbeck

The fool supply was controlled... — John Steinbeck

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now. — John Steinbeck

His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no warp. — John Steinbeck

There must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation. — John Steinbeck

Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'. — John Steinbeck

I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency: A sad soul can kill you quicker--far quicker--than a germ. — John Steinbeck

Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process. — John Steinbeck

An' it all just amounts to what you tell yourself. — John Steinbeck

The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. — John Steinbeck

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes. — John Steinbeck

I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass. — John Steinbeck

And her joy was nearly like sorrow. — John Steinbeck

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. — John Steinbeck

Life is knowledge, livin it is Succes! — John Steinbeck

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything. — John Steinbeck

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row — John Steinbeck

It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. — John Steinbeck

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? — John Steinbeck

Now it is over," he said sadly. "Now the great times are done. Thy friends will mourn, but nothing will come of their mourning." Danny — John Steinbeck

I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all. — John Steinbeck

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. — John Steinbeck

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world. — John Steinbeck

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground. — John Steinbeck

black gloom settled over the Palace Flophouse. — John Steinbeck

He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts. — John Steinbeck

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on. — John Steinbeck

With knowledge there is no hope, ... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor. — John Steinbeck

At night in this waterless air the stars come down just out of reach of your fingers. — John Steinbeck

The law was designed to save, not to destroy. — John Steinbeck

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

He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA, — John Steinbeck

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing. — John Steinbeck

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now
only that place where the books are kept. — John Steinbeck

It is the hour of pearl - the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. — John Steinbeck

He wanted to say something beautiful, I think. — John Steinbeck

And when a man's feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something, and Abel was in the way of his anger. — John Steinbeck

Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does. — John Steinbeck

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. — John Steinbeck

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck

Pre-Cambrian Memory. — John Steinbeck

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow. — John Steinbeck

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. — John Steinbeck

There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness. — John Steinbeck

I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra — John Steinbeck

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards. — John Steinbeck

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money. — Thomas Steinbeck

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. — John Steinbeck

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known. — John Steinbeck

It ain't kin we? It's will we? — John Steinbeck

I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen. — John Steinbeck

To be alive at all is to have scars. — John Steinbeck

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself. — John Steinbeck

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone. — John Steinbeck

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent. — John Steinbeck

Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent. — John Steinbeck

Every little boy thinks he invented sin. — John Steinbeck

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself. — John Steinbeck

Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor - no dignity, no character of his own. — John Steinbeck

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman. — Thomas Steinbeck

Doc was more than first citizen of Cannery Row.
He was healer of the wounded soul and the cut finger. — John Steinbeck