“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining… — 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
“For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They reminded him of something—what was it?—some memory, some picture. He strove to find it and then it came of itself. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He always tell what it will be like someday." "Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.” — 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
