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Place Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful…
- There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil…
- Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.
- I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each…
- The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think…
- Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
- Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created…
- I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
- She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since…
- Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of…
- New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.
- Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.
- Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough
- Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and…
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