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John Steinbeck Quote: “But you can’t start. Only a baby can start. You and me – why, we’re all that’s been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that’s us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can’t start again.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “A good writer always works at the impossible.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Things that happen are of no importance. But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “The power of an attitude is amazing.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “You can’t slice up morals.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Tom’s cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. His violence balanced his tenderness, and himself was a pitted battlefield of his own forces.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins – it never will – but that it doesn’t die.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child’s world in never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn’t mean no harm, George.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “It is advisable to look from the tide pools to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “We know what we got, and we don’t care whether you know it or not.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Oh, but strawberries will never taste so good again and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!”
John Steinbeck Quote: “There wasn’t any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn’t have room to store his happiness.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man – and the Word is with Men.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates – died of malnutrition – because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “I’m gettin’ tired way past where sleep rests me.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Don’t roust your faith bird-high an’ you won’t do no crawlin’ with the worms.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It’s a mystery. Always startled to find I’ve survived.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic peoplehas ever survived these dangers.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “She shook her head slowly from side to side. “I’m jus’ pain covered with skin.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “I’m learnin’ one thing good,” she said. “Learnin’ it all a time, ever’ day. If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Must hunger become anger and anger fury before anything will be done?”
John Steinbeck Quote: “This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Don’t you dare take the lazy way. It’s too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don’t let me catch you doing it! Now – look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “It’s a thing to see when a boy comes home. It’s a thing to see.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught – in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too – in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well – or ill?”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “All we got is the family unbroke.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.”
John Steinbeck Quote: “Lennie said quietly, “It ain’t no lie. We’re gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an’ live on the fatta the lan’.”
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