I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The pictures were designed to soothe without arousing interest – engravings of cows in ponds, deer in streams, dogs in lakes. Wet… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But Charley doesn’t have our problems. He doesn’t belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly… — 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
![“It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a42/john-steinbeck-71_anointing_it-is-my-experience-that-in-some-areas-m_804959.jpg)
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