A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to… — 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
He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure. — 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 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
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor… — 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
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
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
'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,'… — 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
