All John Steinbeck Quotes
- I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them… Brave
- You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. Chaos
- Courage and fear were one thing too. Courage
- It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our… Americans
- We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. All
- The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops… All
- When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens… Beat
- Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets… All
- I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck Always Breathe
- A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river. Air
- Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. America
- I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times. Any
- Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with… Able
- It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not… Accept
- We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest… Bitterness
- It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved,… All
- Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans Boy
- Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans Men
- I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of… Appearance
- Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but… Alone
- Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna… All
- 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 of… Bar
- George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches,… Ahead
- Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta. Begged
- Luck, you see, brings bitter friends. Bitter