Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and… — 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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