48 Quotations by John Steinbeck
- 1. A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering ...

- 2. A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep an ...

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

- 4. After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, ...

- 5. All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

- 6. Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventual ...

- 7. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding w ...

- 8. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, follower ...

- 9. Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

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

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

- 12. I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical.

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

- 14. If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

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

- 16. In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you un ...

- 17. In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.

- 18. It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the com ...

- 19. It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

- 20. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, ...

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