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
“There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In all such local tragedies time works like a damp brush on water color. The sharp edges blur, the ache goes out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change… — 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
“But now I been thinkin' what he said, an' I can remember-all of it. Says one time he went out in the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but… — 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
