I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I should have known […] I am the rain. […] I am the land […] and I am the rain. The grass… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. ” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think… — 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
It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're… — 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
“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
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
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