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Said Quotes by John Steinbeck
- 'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.
- I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a…
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked…
- I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.
- Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me,…
- Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what…
- For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in…
- His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
- You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is…
- They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd…
- He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It…
- He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
- Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could…
- 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 said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.
- Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk…
- Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
- This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan…
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