I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
JOHN STEINBECKI shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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 STEINBECKAll great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECKA sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECKSomewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
JOHN STEINBECKPerhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECKMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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 STEINBECKA man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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 STEINBECKBooks are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
JOHN STEINBECKWrite freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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 STEINBECK