Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften… — 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
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that… — 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
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique… — 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
You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the… — 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
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — 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
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see… — 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
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
Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the… — 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
'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
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