All John Steinbeck Quotes
- Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an… Anywhere
- I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra Abra
- Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother. Brother
- I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. Destruction
- I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult… Admiration
- Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now… Ancestry
- I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the… Awaken
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. People
- Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart… Around Take
- There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature… Changes
- You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds… Brambles
- Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't… Afford
- ...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. Buy
- We don't take a trip. A trip takes us. Funny
- You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. Buying
- I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. Boundless
- Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten. Cannot Create
- One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all… All
- Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do. Day
- No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. Feel
- The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He… Doe
- Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man. Aching
- This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow… Alleys
- I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. Damndest
- Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent… All