I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home.… — 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