To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
John SteinbeckAnd he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.
John SteinbeckTags: beauty fire cannery-row
Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.
John SteinbeckTags: fiction cannery-row john-steinbeck
He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row
John SteinbeckTags: cannery-row john-steinbeck hazel
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
John SteinbeckTags: classic observational insperational
But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
John SteinbeckWe will rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly... In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
John SteinbeckTags: introspective
The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it afterward is another matter. I've always felt they got scared of the ghost they raised and tried to buy it off.
John SteinbeckTags: thought-provoking-humourous
If you want to keep a friend, never test him.
John SteinbeckTags: truism
A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.
John SteinbeckTags: humorous
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