for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also. — 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
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
But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life… — 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
