Quotes about Steinbeck

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Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparro — John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
Liza with her acceptance could take care of tragedy — she had no real hope this side of Heaven.
The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it cou — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Our people are good people — our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.
I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was — Phillip Adams
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless — peacocks and lilies for instance.
And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to rea — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms. — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He fel — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
They got to live before they can afford to die. — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to. — John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature — John Steinbeck
An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'. — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is — John Steinbeck, East of Eden