American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.
John SteinbeckTags: waste cities american rubbish trash
There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy
John SteinbeckTags: satisfaction east-of-eden john-steinbeck disatisfaction
The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
John SteinbeckI shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I have discovered that there are other rivers.
John SteinbeckIf he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.
John SteinbeckIf you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
John SteinbeckTags: poverty
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 SteinbeckTags: change
Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.
John SteinbeckThe candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.
John SteinbeckWherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.
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