Beans are a roof over your head.
John SteinbeckIn our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
John SteinbeckTags: god fight confused unhappy
You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed a few things. The builder of your Cathedral is forgotten even now, but I, who burned it, may be remembered for a hundred years or so. And that may mean something or other about mankind.
John SteinbeckTags: history human-nature
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
John SteinbeckTags: man
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
John SteinbeckYellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.
John SteinbeckMind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I be? And all because I don't want to go to work. I'll work my head off to avoid work. Come, mind. This time you don't get away with it - back to the desk.
John SteinbeckPuts a weight on ya. Goin' out lookin' for somepin you know you ain't gonna find.
John SteinbeckIf you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
John SteinbeckI've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.
John SteinbeckTags: intelligence labor labor-activism desk-job manual-labor
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