John Steinbeck quotes - page 6

You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell. (John Steinbeck)
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. View quote
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It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way. View quote
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The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. View quote
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If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick. View quote
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The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. View quote
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Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. View quote
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Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. View quote
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A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. View quote
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All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not. View quote
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The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time. (John Steinbeck)
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody. View quote
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Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself. View quote
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think. View quote
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going. View quote
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Strength and success- they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. View quote
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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid. View quote
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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand. View quote
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. View quote
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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. View quote
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They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property. (John Steinbeck)
I guess this is why I hate governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists. View quote
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Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it. View quote
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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. View quote
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. View quote
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