Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of… — 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
I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over... — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
(About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its… — 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
