Quotes by John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

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Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reactio — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down r — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Once Ed said to me, "For a very long time I didn't like myself." It was not said in self-pity but simply as an unfortuna — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the asse — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. At first the rocks ar — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
There is a curious idea among unscientific men that in scientific writing there is a common plateau of perfectionism. No — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez