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John Steinbeck quotes

American Author February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

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Somewhere in the world there is a 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 and victory. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying..."
I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back. John Steinbeck
There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people,..."
The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they'd starve without. -Liza John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic..."
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. John Steinbeck
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped? John Steinbeck
Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a..."
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck
Casy gathered in his canvas sneakers and shoved his bare feet into them. "I ain't got your confidence," he said. "I'm always scared there's wire or glass under the dust. I don't know nothin' I hate so much as a cut toe. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history:..."
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. John Steinbeck
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all..."
I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing..."
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. John Steinbeck
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 John Steinbeck
The trees and the muscled mountains are the world? but not the world apart from man? the world and man? the one inseparable unit man and his environment. Why they should ever have been understood as being separate I do not know. John Steinbeck

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