It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECKYour audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
JOHN STEINBECKGirls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECKIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECKIn poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECKThe great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECKI shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECKTo be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECKYou know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECKThere’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECK