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John Steinbeck Quotes - Page 14

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It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Self Esteem, Self Love, Acquaintance

John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.174, Penguin

The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.

Writing, Simple, Offering

They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book.

Real, Book, Writing

John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.115, Penguin

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Movie, Sorrow, Enough

"The Grapes of Wrath".

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

Jesus, Names, People

John Steinbeck (2006). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.72, Penguin

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

Nature, Men, Years

John Steinbeck (1995). “The Pastures of Heaven”, p.42, Penguin

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Strong, Husband, Son

John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.294, Penguin

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

Condescension And, Ugly, Condescension

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.144, Penguin

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Monsters, Variation, Chaos

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

People, Crafts, May

John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Giving, Unqualified, Praise

"The Affluent Society". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Introduction, 1977.

Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.

Air, People, Joy

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.30, Penguin

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

Men, Wrath, Knows

The Grapes of Wrath ch. 18 (1939)

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Boast, Ifs

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.9, Penguin

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

Travel, People, Maps

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

Texas, Mind, Obsession

"Travels With Charley: In Search of America". Book by John Steinbeck, Part 4, 1962.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

Men, Delay, Exit

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.15, Penguin

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

Benefits, Speech, Bread

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.63, Penguin

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

Cat, Animal, Monkeys

John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.72, Penguin

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

Life, Watches, Lord

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.234, Penguin

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

Sadness, Knows

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

Confusion, Humanity, Passing

John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

Differences, Mind, Want

John Steinbeck (2006). “In Dubious Battle”, p.47, Penguin

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

Doe, Fields, Hunger

John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.59, Penguin

And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.

Hurt, Food, Believe

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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