“I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“First we find a buried star and now we go to dig up a mint-new human” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I’ve never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for… — John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review Copy Share Image
“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Only once or twice in her life had she ever understood all of him, but the part of him which she knew,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Then it don' matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where - wherever you look. Wherever they's a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
