It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.” — 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
Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Down towards one end of the village, among the small houses, a dog complained about the cold and the loneliness. He raised… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have only the hard, clean questions: Was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Suppose it were true—Adam, the most rigidly honest man it was possible to find, living all his life on stolen money. Lee… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Pa said, "Won't you say a few words? Ain't none of our folks ever been buried without a few words." Connie led… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Seems like our life's over and done." "No, it ain't," Ma smiled. "It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You got to have patience. Why, Tom—us people will go on livin’ when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we’re the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The Mayor spoke proudly. 'Yes, they will light it. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but—I do… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you” — 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
