“Do you know that i paid two dollars for [Doxocology] thirty-three years ago? Everything was wrong with him, hoofs like flapjacks, a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.” — 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
“What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways? We don't want no pants rabbits.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The preacher laughed softly. "You know," he said, "it's a nice thing not bein' a preacher no more. Nobody use' ta tell… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The one-eyed man stood helplessly by. "I'll help ya if ya want," he said. "Know what that son-of-a-bitch done? He come by… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But it isn't hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But from the start I had withheld from him any information about the giant redwoods. It seemed to me that a Long… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He had good children and he raised them fine. All doing well -maybe except Joe...they're talking about sending him to college, but… — 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
