If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Thou mayest rule over sin,’ Lee. That’s it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly… — 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 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
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
“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
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. — 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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