The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our… — 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
