Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The reverse is also true: many a trip continues long after movement in time and space has ceased. I remember a man… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ah!' said Lee. 'I’ve wanted to tell you this for a long time. I even anticipated your questions and I am well… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In all such local tragedies time works like a damp brush on water color. The sharp edges blur, the ache goes out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They’s a time of change, an’ when that comes, dyin’ is a piece of all dyin’, and bearin’ is a piece of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Course you did,” said Tom. “Always talk. If you was up on the gallows you’d be passin’ the time a day with… — 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
