I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECKI find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
JOHN STEINBECKI believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECKIf a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
JOHN STEINBECKTeaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECKI know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
JOHN STEINBECKMen 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.
JOHN STEINBECKI like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECKA man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECKPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECKIt is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECKI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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 STEINBECKTo finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
JOHN STEINBECK