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John Steinbeck Quotes

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The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant  (John Steinbeck Quotes) New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world  (John Steinbeck Quotes) The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn’t occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Niagara Falls is very nice. I’m very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once  (John Steinbeck Quotes) For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland  (John Steinbeck Quotes) I guess I’m trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again  (John Steinbeck Quotes) We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is  (John Steinbeck Quotes) There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers  (John Steinbeck Quotes) I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments  (John Steinbeck Quotes) You’re getting well,’ Samuel said. ‘Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around  (John Steinbeck Quotes) They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves. (Irish)  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Lord, how the day passes! It’s like a life - so quickly when we don’t watch it and so slowly when we do  (John Steinbeck Quotes) You got a God. Don’t make no difference if you don’ know what he looks like  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully  (John Steinbeck Quotes) We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil  (John Steinbeck Quotes) 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 Quotes) I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough  (John Steinbeck Quotes) It was deeply a part of Lee’s kindness and understanding that man’s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary  (John Steinbeck Quotes) The first grave. Now we’re getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that’s home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future  (John Steinbeck Quotes) All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word  (John Steinbeck Quotes) You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away  (John Steinbeck Quotes) I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion  (John Steinbeck Quotes) Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots  (John Steinbeck Quotes) What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge  (John Steinbeck Quotes) (About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it  (John Steinbeck Quotes) The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can’t take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by  (John Steinbeck Quotes)
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