Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. — 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
The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in… — 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
I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Aron said slowly. “I wouldn’t want to know that. I’d like to know why you do it. You’re always at something. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.” — 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
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
