Quotes
Quotes - Steinbeck
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
No one wants adviceâonly corroboration.
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.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
