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“But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”

John Steinbeck book Tortilla Flat

Source: Tortilla Flat

“If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”

John Steinbeck

New York Times (2 June 1969)

“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden (1952)

“It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.”

John Steinbeck book The Pastures of Heaven

Source: The Pastures of Heaven

“Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“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 book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.”

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“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 book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“The flies have conquered the flypaper.”

John Steinbeck book The Moon Is Down

Source: The Moon Is Down