“Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In his middle life, at about the time such things were known about, it was discovered that, he had pernicious anemia. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The old man slowly unwrapped the shining blade and let the lamplight slip along it for a moment. Then he wrapped it… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But now I been thinkin' what he said, an' I can remember-all of it. Says one time he went out in the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam’s mother ran the farm, bore Adam, and still had time to embrace a primitive theosophy. She felt that her husband would… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy—that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Yes, I’ll be glad.” And she said suddenly, “There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his… — 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
Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. — 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
