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John Steinbeck Quotes - Page 15

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The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

Years, People, Dying

John Steinbeck (2007). “Once There Was a War”, p.23, Penguin

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

Hands, Land, Guy

John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.36, Hamilton Books

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Kindness, Confusion, Effort

John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.65, Penguin

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

Morning, Men, Wake Up

John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.53, Penguin

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

Men, Wrath, Suffering

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.119, Hamilton Books

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

Hate, Triggers, Stimulants

John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.

Men, Thinking, Singing

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.190, Penguin

Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

Dog, Looks, Hats

John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.361, Penguin

Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?

Done, Hunger, Fury

"America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction".

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

Get Well, Thinking, People

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.233, Penguin

Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

Brother, Men, Hands

"East of Eden".

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

Men, Thinking, Brave

John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.238, Penguin

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

People, Listening, Gathering

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.262, Hamilton Books

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Sick, Literature, Earth

"Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Intent", 1977.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

Men, Thinking, Doe

John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

To the heavens on the wings of a pig.

Pigs, Wings, Heaven

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

Life, Thinking, Kind

John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

Boys, Thinking, Texas

John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.

Dream, Dark, Light

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

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.

Morning, Stars, Dust

John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.9, Hamilton Books

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."

Life, Men, Mad

"The Mail I've Seen". Saturday Review magazine, August 03, 1956.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Dog, Eye, Thinking

John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

Kids, Fighting, Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath ch. 28 (1939)

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

Book, Mean, Mad

Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

Moving, Wind, Rabbits

John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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