John Steinbeck: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..”

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”

“.. it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world… It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

“Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans”

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”

“Don't make everyone know about your sadness.”

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

“… and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”

“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”

“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

“His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”