When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We must find him...Some harm will fall upon our friend in his craziness. We must search through the whole world until we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Thy life is not thine own to govern, Danny, for it controls other lives. See how thy friends suffer! Spring to life,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Do you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?" "Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And always, if he had a little money, a man could get drunk. The hard edges gone, and the warmth. Then there… — 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
“My friend Jack Wagner has often, in Mexico, assumed this state of being. Let us say we wanted to walk in the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't… — 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
“But the loneliness was still on Danny and demanded an outlet. 'Here we sit,' he began at last. ' - broken-hearted,' Pilon… — 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)
