Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old John Steinbeck quotes, John Steinbeck sayings, and John Steinbeck proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.John Steinbeck
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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.John Steinbeck
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck
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A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.John Steinbeck
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.John Steinbeck
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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.John Steinbeck
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The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.John Steinbeck
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There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.John Steinbeck
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Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.John Steinbeck
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I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.John Steinbeck
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When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.John Steinbeck
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In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.John Steinbeck
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People don’t take trips…Trips take people.John Steinbeck
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.John Steinbeck
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I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.John Steinbeck
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A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going.John Steinbeck
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.John Steinbeck
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.John Steinbeck
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?John Steinbeck
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It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.John Steinbeck
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.John Steinbeck
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Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.John Steinbeck
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When Mary is confused or perplexed, she spurts anger the way an octopus spurts ink, and hides in the dark cloud of it.John Steinbeck
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We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man. Yes, but the bank is only made of men.John Steinbeck
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The bank, the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.John Steinbeck
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.John Steinbeck
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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.John Steinbeck
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Spread out (the sun) like a jellyfish.John Steinbeck
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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.John Steinbeck
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.John Steinbeck
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