At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Help him, Adam--help him. Give him his chance. Let him be free. That's all a man has over the beasts. Free him!… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Look, Samuel, I mean to make a garden of my land. Remember my name is Adam. So far I’ve had no Eden,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“them,” he said. “The dust is warm,” said Samuel. “Now it goes this way. ‘And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam found his father out. It wasn’t that his father changed but that some new quality came to Adam. He had always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam wet his dry lips and tried to ask and failed and tried again. "Why do they have to do it?" he… — 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
