If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
JOHN STEINBECKA sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECKMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECKSometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
JOHN STEINBECKMy imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECKPeople like you to be something, preferably what they are.
JOHN STEINBECKMaybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECKAh, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly mediocrity escapes criticism.
JOHN STEINBECKPerhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
JOHN STEINBECKThe craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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 STEINBECKOnly through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECKAn answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
JOHN STEINBECK