There's a capacity for apetite," Samuel said, "that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy
John SteinbeckThere are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
John SteinbeckHe was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.
John SteinbeckParents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher.
John SteinbeckHe learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
John SteinbeckWell, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
John SteinbeckI am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
John SteinbeckTags: on-writing maturity
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
John SteinbeckBut '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
John SteinbeckIt has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
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