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Into Quotes by John Steinbeck
- And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in…
- Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we…
- I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood…
- I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the…
- These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them…
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure.…
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
- In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
- He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
- [He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and…
- ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But…
- A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.
- This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,…
- When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and…
- I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
- My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her…
- The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
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