A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think… — 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
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased:… — 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
Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.” — john steinbeck Copy Share Image
Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.” — 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
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not… — 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
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