Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — 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
“Our Father who art in nature...must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the… — 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
“Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at the eyes that seemed so near to tears, and she felt the… — 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. Don’t… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Yes, I’ll be glad.” And she said suddenly, “There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Rose of Sharon Chapter 16 Me an’ Connie don’t want to live in the country no more. We got it all planned… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Mack and the boys, too, spinning in their orbits. They are the Virtues, the Graces, the Beauties of the hurried mangled craziness… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“First—if you are in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it… — 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
“I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. — 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
My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . . — 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
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
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer. — 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
“Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?” — 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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