John Steinbeck Quotes
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'When you argue with a child,' she said warmly, 'you give a good argument and the child says yah, yah! You understand him and he doesn't listen, so the child wins.'
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place - everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.
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It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.
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There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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Strength and success- they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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'Well, that glove's fulla vaseline.''Vaseline? What the hell for?'Well, I tell ya what - Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife.'
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
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Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
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His guard was up now and he wasn't listening; he was only angry because here was a world he could not enter and so he had to disbelieve in its existence. He fell back on the world he knew.
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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He didn't believe in psychiatrists, he said. But actually he did believe in them, so much that he was afraid of them.
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There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
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You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
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Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.