There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that… — 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
When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. What… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and… — 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
