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John Steinbeck quotes

American Author February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

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John Steinbeck quote: "And all their love was thinned with money."
And all their love was thinned with money. John Steinbeck
Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the..."
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed..."
...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. John Steinbeck
So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out. John Steinbeck
I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I have discovered that there are other rivers. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a..."
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Because he loved true things he tried to explain."
Because he loved true things he tried to explain. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east."
I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing? John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck quote: "Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?"Probably..."
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?"Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer. John Steinbeck
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. John Steinbeck
Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite…. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then—the glory—so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a... John Steinbeck
They walked side by side along the dark beach toward Monterey, where the lights hung, necklace above necklace against the hill. The sand dunes crouched along the back of the beach like tired hounds, resting: and the waves gently practiced at striking, and hissed a little. The night was cold and aloof, and its warm life was withdrawn, so that it was full of bitter warnings to man that he is alone in the world, and alone among his fellows; that he has no comfort owing him from anywhere. John Steinbeck
There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar. John Steinbeck

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