“The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“First we find a buried star and now we go to dig up a mint-new human” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more… — 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
“Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Then it don' matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where - wherever you look. Wherever they's a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Only once or twice in her life had she ever understood all of him, but the part of him which she knew,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I’ve never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it… — 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
