“Then there were harebells, tiny lanterns, cream white and almost sinful looking, and these were so rare and magical that a child,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If every single man and woman, child and baby, acts and conducts itself in a known pattern and breaks no walls and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is a child speaking," said Merlin, "not a king and not a knight, but a hurt and angry child, or you… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco “the City”. Of course it was the only city… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
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… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
