John Steinbeck Quotes
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'It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.'
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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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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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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
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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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I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.
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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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… we've got so many laws you can't breathe without breaking something.
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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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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There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
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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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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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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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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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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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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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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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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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There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
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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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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.