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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. - John Steinbeck Quotes

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

American Author Books And Reading

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. - John Steinbeck Quotes

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

American Author

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. - John Steinbeck Quotes

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

American Author Conviction

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones. - John Steinbeck Quotes

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory - John Steinbeck Quotes

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Death

The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. - John Steinbeck Quotes

The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed - John Steinbeck Quotes

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed

Time is the only critic without ambition. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Ambition American Author

It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second. - John Steinbeck Quotes

It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. - John Steinbeck Quotes

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

American Author Inexplicable

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

American Author Despair

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction - John Steinbeck Quotes

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. - John Steinbeck Quotes

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

American Author Climate

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 Quotes

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

Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat add victory. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat add victory.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. - John Steinbeck Quotes

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

American Author Discipline

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

American Author

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. - John Steinbeck Quotes

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

American Author Dedication

A book is like a man / clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. - John Steinbeck Quotes

A book is like a man / clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Man

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

American Author

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

American Author

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better - John Steinbeck Quotes

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better

No one is more carnal than a recent virgin - John Steinbeck Quotes

No one is more carnal than a recent virgin

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. - John Steinbeck Quotes

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

American Author

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

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

American Author

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? - John Steinbeck Quotes

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

American Author Guilt

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. - John Steinbeck Quotes

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

American Author Control

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

You give me much good counsel. I am tired of it. - John Steinbeck Quotes

You give me much good counsel. I am tired of it.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. - John Steinbeck Quotes

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

American Author

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. - John Steinbeck Quotes

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

American Author Man

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. - John Steinbeck Quotes

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. - John Steinbeck Quotes

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

American Author Journey

This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. - John Steinbeck Quotes

This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. - John Steinbeck Quotes

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

American Author Pain

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

American Author

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love - John Steinbeck Quotes

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love

Love Quote of the Day

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. - John Steinbeck Quotes

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

American Author

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.'' - John Steinbeck Quotes

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''

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. - John Steinbeck Quotes

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.

American Author

There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter - John Steinbeck Quotes

There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. - John Steinbeck Quotes

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

American Author

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. - John Steinbeck Quotes

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

American Author Hate

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

Mind

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

American Author

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

American Author

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter:

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

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. - John Steinbeck Quotes

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

American Author

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. - John Steinbeck Quotes

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

American Author

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. - John Steinbeck Quotes

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.

American Author

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