You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
-
-
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.
JOHN STEINBECK -
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECK -
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK -
It 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 STEINBECK -
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECK -
I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
JOHN STEINBECK -
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECK -
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECK -
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
JOHN STEINBECK -
Your 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 STEINBECK -
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK