This nickel, unlike most money, has actually done a job of work, has been physically responsible for a reaction.
John SteinbeckTag: money
They taught us a toast in Ukranian which we like: 'Let us drink to make people at home happy.' And they toasted again to peace, always to peace. Both of these men had been soldiers, and both of them had been wounded, and they drank to peace.
John SteinbeckYou see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.
John SteinbeckThe women watched the men, watched to see whether the break had come at last. The women stood silently and watched. And where a number of men gathered together, the fear went from their faces, and anger took its place. And the women sighed with relief, for they knew it was all right - the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
John SteinbeckI wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.
-Uncle John
Tag: capitalism waste free-market
We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)
John SteinbeckTag: strong pride dignity hardened
A luz do crepúsculo fazia brilhar a terra vermelha, de maneira que as suas dimensões se aprofundavam.
Uma pedra, um poste, uma construção adquiriam mais profundidade e mais consistência então do que à luz do dia; e todos esses objetos se tornavam estranhamente mais individuais: um poste era mais essencialmente um poste; elevava-se com mais firmeza da terra e destacava-se melhor do campo de milho que lhe servia de fundo.
E as plantas adquiriam mais individualidade. Não eram apenas um conjunto de cereais, e o salgueiro desfolhado era mais ele próprio, bem diferente dos outros salgueiros. A terra também contribuía com uma parte de luz para a tarde. A frontaria da casa, parda, sem pintura, voltada a oeste, brilhava palidamente com um fulgor semelhante ao da lua.
O caminhão cinzento e empoeirado, imóvel no terreiro, destacava-se magicamente àquela luz, na perspectiva exagerada de um estereoscópio.
Doc turned in the seat and looked back. The disappearing sun shone on his laughing face, his gay and eager face. With his left hand he held the bucking steering wheel.
Cannery Row looked after the ancient car. It made the first turn and was gone from sight behind a warehouse just as the sun was gone.
Fauna said, 'I wonder if I'd be safe to put up her gold star tonight. What the hell's the matter with you, Mack?'
Mack said, 'Vice is a monster so frightful of mien, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.' He put his arm around Hazel's shoulders. 'I think you'd of made a hell of a president,' he said.
Tag: president vice literary-happy-ending live-as-a-king
Maybe it’s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and so if you are young, you write them in a notebook for future use. And you never use them because they are sparkling and alive like colored pebbles on a wave-washed shore. It’s impossible not to fill your pockets with them. But when you get home, they are dry and colorless. I’d like to pin down a few while they are still wet.
John SteinbeckTag: creativity
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
John SteinbeckTag: human-nature country-life
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