John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he is best known for his novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Great Depression. :
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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.
John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John Steinbeck
Man is the only kind of varmint who sets his own trap, baits it, then steps on it.
John Steinbeck
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.
John Steinbeck
We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us.
John Steinbeck
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck
I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical.
John Steinbeck
What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason.
John Steinbeck
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word... Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!
John Steinbeck
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
John Steinbeck
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John Steinbeck
