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 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 STEINBECKThere’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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 STEINBECKAnd now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECKA man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly mediocrity escapes criticism.
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 STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKGirls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
JOHN STEINBECKI shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECKI believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
JOHN STEINBECKAn answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECK