In the evening a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the Children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream. And it might be that a sick child threw despair into the hearts of twenty families, of a hundred people; that a birth there in a tent kept a hundred people quiet and awestruck trough the night and filled a hundred people with the birth-joy in the morning...Every night a world created, complete with furniture- friends made and enemies established; a world complete with braggarts and with cowards, with quiet men, with humble men, with kindly men. Every night relationships that make a world, established; and every morning the world torn down like a circus.
John SteinbeckPor el grosor del polvo en los libros de una biblioteca pública puede medirse la cultura de un pueblo.
- John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968)
I am grieved at what you tell me," said Pellinore, "but I believe that God can change destiny. I must have faith in that.
John Steinbeck...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an ogreish professional hostess. These are not parties at all but acts and demonstrations, about as spontaneous as peristalsis and as interesting as it's end product.
John SteinbeckDo you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?"
"Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that thinking of a friend and meeting him are connected. But does thinking draw him or his coming draw the thought?
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete
John SteinbeckTags: wife children-s-literature wifely-duty
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?"
"Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
Perhaps it is so with everyone, that he looks for weakness in the strong to find promise of strength in his weakness.
John SteinbeckIt is not true as is romantically presumed that people frightened or injured or persecuted are wakeful. More often than not they retire into sleep to be free of trouble for a time.
John Steinbeck...um homem tem de ter qualquer coisa a que se ligue, qualquer coisa que ele possa estar certo de encontrar lá de manhã.
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