John Steinbeck: Trending quotes (page 8)

“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”

“I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.”

“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”

“Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”

“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

“You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers…”

“Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”

“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”

“He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.”

“Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”

“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms”

“Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.”

“Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.”

“And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”