John Steinbeck Quotes
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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 much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
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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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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
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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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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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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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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 readers.
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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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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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Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
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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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There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
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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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You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
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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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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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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.