I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.… — 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 face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In a bitter night, a mustard night that was last night, a good thought came and the dark was sweetened when the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging… — 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 Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — 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 a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
