And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
JOHN STEINBECKAn unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECKGirls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKMy imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECKI believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECKThere’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECKPerhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
JOHN STEINBECKIt is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECKTo be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECKYou know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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 STEINBECKNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECK