“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road;… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The honest preachers had energy and go. They fought the devil, no holds barred, boots and eye-gouging permitted. You might get the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the… — 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
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so… — 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]… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You may thank God you didn’t want to be an actor, Tom, because you would have been a very bad one. You… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things, he tried to explain. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it and it's usually crucifixion.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious. — 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
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
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