“That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Now discontent nibbled at him - not painfully, but constantly. Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Because time does the job, dynamite can't touch. (Samuel Hamilton)” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It became his habit to creep out of bed even before his mother was awake, to slip into his clothes and to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it and it's usually crucifixion.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture. — 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
