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“Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

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

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter

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

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

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

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

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

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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

John Steinbeck book The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

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

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

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

John Steinbeck

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

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

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

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

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

John Steinbeck

“… 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.”

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

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

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

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

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“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.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 3, p. 41

“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.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 2, p. 36