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Some Quotes by John Steinbeck
- They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of…
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the…
- It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He…
- Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human…
- Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one…
- The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he…
- 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…
- Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
- Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of…
- (Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.
- I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of…
- The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come…
- Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.
- After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed.…
- What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
- But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral…
- A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has…
- There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.
- But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty…
- I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was…
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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