The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence. — 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 kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of… — 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
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known. — 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
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men… — 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
I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If… — 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
A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I… — 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
In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin'… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside… — 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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