Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECKIdeas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECKThe final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECKMaybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECKThe great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECKThe free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECKI 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 STEINBECKIf you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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 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 STEINBECKHow can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
JOHN STEINBECKI shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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 STEINBECKThere’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECK