John Steinbeck Quotes
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Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary - do you hear? Who are you in there?
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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'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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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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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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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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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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'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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There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
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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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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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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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You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.