John Steinbeck Quotes
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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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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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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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There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
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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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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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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
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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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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.