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“We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

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

“I think I love you, Cal." -Abra
I'm not good." -Cal
Because you're not good." -Abra”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

John Steinbeck book Sweet Thursday

Sweet Thursday (1954)

“They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”

John Steinbeck book Tortilla Flat

Source: Tortilla Flat

“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Lennie, in Ch. 3, p. 57
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937)