Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?
John SteinbeckStichwörter: philosophy children time memory
Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breathed in peacefulness. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Neither knew about the other at all.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: men women nature personality mountains landscape
And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: man personality traits
No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him.
John SteinbeckThere were frogs all right, thousands of them. Their voices beat the night, they boomed and barked and croaked and rattled. They sang to the stars, to the waning moon, to the waving grasses. They bellowed long songs and challenges.
John SteinbeckAnd always, if he had a little money, a man could get drunk. The hard edges gone, and the warmth. Then there was no loneliness, for a man could people his brain with friends, and he could find his enemies and destroy them.
John SteinbeckThe bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
John SteinbeckIt is a fact verified and recorded in many histories that soul capable of the greatest good is also capable of the greatest evil. Who is there more impious than backsliding priest? Who more carnal than a recent virgin? This, however, may be a matter of appearance.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: greatest-evil greatest-good
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore.
John SteinbeckOnce you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough
John SteinbeckStichwörter: new-york-city
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