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
I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with… — 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
This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For… — 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
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 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
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
But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans — 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
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — 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
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and… — 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
