John Steinbeck: Trending quotes (page 9)

“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”

“There are some times… when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”

“I'm jus' pain covered with skin.”

“You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”

“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.”

“You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.”

“These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.”

“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”

“It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”

“Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now."
"Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.”

“If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen… A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.”

“No one wants advice, only corroboration.”

“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”

“For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.”

“Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.”

“And her joy was nearly like sorrow.”

“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”

“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”