[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life… — 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
“But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive. — 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
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