This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. — 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
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print… — 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 seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I printed it once more on my eyes, south, west, and north, and then we hurried away from the permanent and changeless… — 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
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
