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John Steinbeck Quotes - Page 27

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What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

Sex, Men, Monsters

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.68, Penguin

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Men, Tails, Good God

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

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.

Men, California, Endurance

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.116, Penguin

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

Men, Together, Glue

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.365, Penguin

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

Dark, Past, Deserving It

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.143, Penguin

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Land, America, Monsters

John Steinbeck (2012). “Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.31, Penguin

Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.

Running, Fate, People

All we got is the family unbroke.

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.135, Hamilton Books

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

Girl, Garden, Sight

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.33, Penguin

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

Laughter, School, Thinking

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.436, Penguin

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

Life, Men, Insane

John Steinbeck (1993). “The Pearl”, p.61, Penguin

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

Loss, Men, Soul

...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.

Book, Men, Hands

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.247, Penguin

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

Mistress, Dangerous, Stills

John Steinbeck (1953). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck”, New York : Viking Press

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

Medicine, Patient, Ends

John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.709, Penguin

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

New York, Thinking, People

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.

Horse, Boys, Race

Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.

Home, Independent, Other Worlds

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.499, Penguin

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

Men, Doe, Letters

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.325, Penguin

A dog is a bond between strangers.

Dog, Stranger

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

Strong, Hunters, Different

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.45, Hamilton Books

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

Men, Light, Mind

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.115, Penguin

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

Guilt, Want, Arms

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.235, Penguin

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

Lennie, Right Now

John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.50, Hamilton Books

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

Loss, Long, Common

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