I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love… — 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
“I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant. — 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