...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . . — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. That was no accident. That, sir, was a profound… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I printed it once more on my eyes, south, west, and north, and then we hurried away from the permanent and changeless… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Spiritually the jugs may be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When the fair gold morning of April stirred Mary Hawley awake, she turned over to her husband and saw him, little fingers… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“New York November 10, 1958 Dear Thom: We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow. — 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
