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John Steinbeck Quotes
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I’ve always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of ‘Of Mice and Men,’ I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic (John Steinbeck Quotes)
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner’s legs are in America - a ridiculous situation (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards (John Steinbeck Quotes)
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
...intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There’s luck or fate or something else that takes over... (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly (John Steinbeck Quotes)
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Like most modern people, I don’t believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it (John Steinbeck Quotes)
I think bullfights are for men who aren’t very brave and wish they were (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
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. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Tom’s cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
..it’s awful not to be loved. It’s the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn’t important enough to me to be an obsession. (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way (John Steinbeck Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)