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It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing. — John Steinbeck

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out. — John Steinbeck

He's got a can up there,' Richard said. — 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

I guess she's just nuts,' he said. 'And if she's nuts, a guy's got to do nuts things. You don't think you could say the hell with her? — John Steinbeck

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

I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man. — John Steinbeck

T's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world ... It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. — John Steinbeck

But you can't start over
Only a boy can start over
You and me
Why, we're all that's been — John Steinbeck

You're jest a-teasin' yourself up to cry. I don' know what's come at you. Our folks ain't never did that. They took what come to 'em dry-eyed. — 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

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there. — John Steinbeck

They say a good soldier fights a battle, never a war. That's for civilians. — John Steinbeck

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else. — John Steinbeck

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete — John Steinbeck

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself. — John Steinbeck

Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. — John Steinbeck

It's a thing to see when a boy comes home. — John Steinbeck

A man's bathroom is his castle — John Steinbeck

It's like me, I wouldn' take the good ol' gospel that was just layin' there to my hand. I got to be pickin' at it until I got it all tore down. — John Steinbeck

I don't mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don't want to get nibbled to death. There's a difference. — John Steinbeck

I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative. — John Steinbeck

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man. — John Steinbeck

It's hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half. — John Steinbeck

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails. — Thomas Steinbeck

The preacher rose high on his elbow. "Law changes," he said, "but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do. — John Steinbeck

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

Maybe you've tumbled a world for me. And I don't know what I can build in my world's place. — John Steinbeck

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. — 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

How's that for the grapes? — John Steinbeck

Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way. — John Steinbeck

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

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down. — John Steinbeck

And Ma smiled sadly, He is. Tommy's growed way up - way up so I can't get aholt of 'im sometimes. — John Steinbeck

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

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over ... — John Steinbeck

I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic. — John Steinbeck

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. — John Steinbeck

I'm glad there's love here. That's all. — John Steinbeck

S-l-o-w-ness
it gave meaning to everything. It made everything royal. — John Steinbeck

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas. — Thomas Steinbeck

No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me. — John Steinbeck

I never fixed no car in my life 'thout cuttin' myself. Now it's done I don't have to worry no more. — John Steinbeck

The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck — Laxmi Hariharan

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta. — John Steinbeck

Not this one." Adam's eyes were shining. "You don't know this Eve. She'll celebrate my choice. I don't think anyone can know her goodness. — John Steinbeck

It's a good thing to be loved, even late. — John Steinbeck

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why. — John Steinbeck

No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. — John Steinbeck

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. — John Steinbeck

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind. — John Steinbeck

There's something desirable about anything you're to as opposed to something you're not. — John Steinbeck

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.
Yes, but the bank is only made of men. — John Steinbeck

And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge. — John Steinbeck

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. — John Steinbeck

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. — John Steinbeck

He needs us like he needs a mud dauber's nest up his pant leg — John Steinbeck

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man. — John Steinbeck

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. — John Steinbeck

Whenever they's a fight so hungry hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beating up a guy, I'll be there. — John Steinbeck

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. — John Steinbeck

Yeah," said George. "I'll come. But listen, Curley. The poor bastard's nuts. Don't shoot 'im. He di'n't know what he was doin'. — John Steinbeck

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does. — 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

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him. — John Steinbeck

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it. — John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do. — John Steinbeck

It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. — John Steinbeck

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother. — John Steinbeck

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. — John Steinbeck

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast. — John Steinbeck

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

A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists. — John Steinbeck

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

It ain't kin we? It's will we? — 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

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

Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life. — John Steinbeck

I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break - remember, most of them were fed on Steinbeck's The Pearl. — Azar Nafisi

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open. — John Steinbeck

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family. — Andre Dubus III

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. — John Steinbeck

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence. — John Steinbeck

We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble. — John Steinbeck

Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad. — John Steinbeck

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. — John Steinbeck

The preacher said, "She looks tar'd.' "Women's always tar'd,' said Tom. "That's just the way women is, 'cept at meetin' once an' again. — John Steinbeck

Well, tell me. You see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. What — John Steinbeck

Una's death struck Samuel like a silent earthquake. He said no brave and reassuring words, he simply sat alone and rocked himself. — John Steinbeck

Help him, Adam
help him. Give him his chance. Let him be free. That's all a man has over the beasts. Free him! Bless him! — John Steinbeck

No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him. — John Steinbeck

One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool. — Paul Dano

What we knew is dead, and maybe the greatest part of what we were is dead. What's out there is new and perhaps good, but it's nothing we know. — John Steinbeck

I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present. — John Steinbeck

Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater. — John Steinbeck