It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is… — 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
(About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it. — 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
It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is. — 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
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
