An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents… The face and body may be perfect, but if a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is… — 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
