No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECKNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECKThere’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECKI wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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 STEINBECKMy imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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 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 STEINBECKNo one wants advice – only corroboration.
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 STEINBECKWith all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
JOHN STEINBECKPerhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK