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JOHN STEINBECK Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made s...
JOHN STEINBECK How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President h...
JOHN STEINBECK ...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. T...
JOHN STEINBECK What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
JOHN STEINBECK He's got a can up there,' Richard said.
JOHN STEINBECK Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you....
JOHN STEINBECK The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the childr...
JOHN STEINBECK When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that ma...
JOHN STEINBECK Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on the floor, I ...
JOHN STEINBECK I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.
JOHN STEINBECK In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
JOHN STEINBECK It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
JOHN STEINBECK It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, bu...
JOHN STEINBECK All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECK No one wants advice, only collaboration.
JOHN STEINBECK Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.
JOHN STEINBECK Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
JOHN STEINBECK I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closel...
JOHN STEINBECK The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
JOHN STEINBECK And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.
JOHN STEINBECK I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopel...
JOHN STEINBECK Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of th...
JOHN STEINBECK I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECK I guess there are never enough books.
JOHN STEINBECK It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget�...
JOHN STEINBECK I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or...
JOHN STEINBECK But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a ...
JOHN STEINBECK Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, ...
JOHN STEINBECK Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody to be near him
JOHN STEINBECK When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls ...
JOHN STEINBECK It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness,...
JOHN STEINBECK Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a ton...
JOHN STEINBECK In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to m...
JOHN STEINBECK A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone e...
JOHN STEINBECK ...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely ...
JOHN STEINBECK A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you
control it.
JOHN STEINBECK Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for i...
JOHN STEINBECK He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
JOHN STEINBECK If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - ...
JOHN STEINBECK Intention, good or bad, is not enough.
JOHN STEINBECK I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
JOHN STEINBECK I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECK All of them had a restlessness in common.
JOHN STEINBECK Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be co...
JOHN STEINBECK And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.
Because he loved true t...
JOHN STEINBECK Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that ...
JOHN STEINBECK For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be bet...
JOHN STEINBECK Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
JOHN STEINBECK Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.
'I d...
JOHN STEINBECK I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.
JOHN STEINBECK To the stars, on the wings of a pig.
JOHN STEINBECK The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and ou...
JOHN STEINBECK The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, dow...
JOHN STEINBECK ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides whit...
JOHN STEINBECK He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give ...
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 In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and ...
JOHN STEINBECK Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
JOHN STEINBECK You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let your...
JOHN STEINBECK Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls...
JOHN STEINBECK To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about ...
JOHN STEINBECK Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't l...
JOHN STEINBECK I was mean life a wolf. Now i'm mean like a weasel. When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an'...
JOHN STEINBECK When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when...
JOHN STEINBECK But this—this is a ladder to climb to the stars.” Lee’s eyes shone. “You can never lose that...
JOHN STEINBECK Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are ...
JOHN STEINBECK And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing...
JOHN STEINBECK Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and ...
JOHN STEINBECK Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mi...
JOHN STEINBECK No one who is young is ever going to be old.
JOHN STEINBECK ..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, an...
JOHN STEINBECK It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECK Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
JOHN STEINBECK A man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECK When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else...
JOHN STEINBECK But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thin...
JOHN STEINBECK A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
JOHN STEINBECK

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