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John Steinbeck Quotes
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Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It’s not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences (John Steinbeck Quotes)
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror (John Steinbeck Quotes)
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child’s world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east (John Steinbeck Quotes)
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes but by no means always find the way to do it (John Steinbeck Quotes)
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn’t admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone (John Steinbeck Quotes)
It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way (John Steinbeck Quotes)
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have (John Steinbeck Quotes)
No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars (John Steinbeck Quotes)
If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Well, God knows he don’t need any brains to buck barley bags. But don’t you try to put nothing over, milton. I got my eye on you (John Steinbeck Quotes)
What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no pants rabbits (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time (John Steinbeck Quotes)
My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Sometimes it’s great fun to be silly, like children playing statues and dying of laughter. and sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start (John Steinbeck Quotes)
What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don’t understand why (John Steinbeck Quotes)
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately (John Steinbeck Quotes)
And now, our submarines are armed with mass murder, our sill, only defense against mass murder (John Steinbeck Quotes)
I guess this is why I hate governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men. There’s nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists (John Steinbeck Quotes)
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me (John Steinbeck Quotes)
He wasn’t involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from (John Steinbeck Quotes)
He doesn’t belong to a race clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live at peace with itself (John Steinbeck Quotes)
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments (John Steinbeck Quotes)