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John Steinbeck Quotes - Page 16

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So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

Coffee, Pride, Two

Letter on August 20, 1947. "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters", 1976.

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

Men, Giving, Guilty

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

Soul, World, Gains

John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Sadness, Men, Years

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.330, Penguin

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

Men, Trying, Pay

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

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

Fall, Facts, Acceptable

John Steinbeck (1961). “The Winter of our Discontent”

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

Wrath, People, Praying

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.192, Hamilton Books

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

Rain, Should Have, Land

"To a God Unknown".

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

Moving, Eye, Desire

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

Pain, Relaxation, Culture

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

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

Worry, Gentleman, Gone

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

Eden, Youth, Young

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.82, Penguin

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

Travel, Struggle, Journey

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

Used, Desirable

John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.125, Penguin

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

Loss, Joy, Trying

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

Girl, World, Honest

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.83, Penguin

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

Might

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.98, Hamilton Books

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Laughter, Women, Habit

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.58, Hamilton Books

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

Wrath, Long, Break

John Steinbeck, Peter Lisca (1977). “The grapes of wrath: text and criticism”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

Ocean, Sleep, Men

Sea of Cortez ch. 4 (1941)

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

Love Is, Men, Self

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.86, Penguin

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

Boston, California, Chinese

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

Animal, Men, Society

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

Lonely, Art, Philosophy

"East of Eden". Book by John Steinbeck, 1952.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Fear, One Thing

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.107, Penguin

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