“Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Here you play in the street, little chicken. Some day an automobile will run over you; and if it kills you, that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.” — 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
“Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We sat on a crate of oranges and thought what good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world--temperamental, moody,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t very long until all the land in the barren hills near King City and San Ardo was taken up, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I know this - a man got to do what he got to do, I can't tell you. I don't think they's… — 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
