“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.” — 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
It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. That was no accident. That, sir, was a profound… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It [the Mexican War] was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There are several ways to wear a hat or a cap. A man may express himself in the pitch or tilt of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He tried not to think what he knew--that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knew—that war is treachery… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In marching, in mobs, in football games, and in war, outlines become vague; real things become unreal and a fog creeps over… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And just as war is always for somebody else, so it is also true that someone else always gets killed. And Mother… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A war always comes to someone else. In Salinas we were aware that the United States was the greatest and most powerful… — 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
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
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
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
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
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
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