You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
John SteinbeckWe can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
John SteinbeckOnly God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
John SteinbeckLooks kinda scrummy
John SteinbeckI am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love.
John SteinbeckTime interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
John SteinbeckIn literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
John SteinbeckTag: literature criticism
Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
John Steinbeck[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
John SteinbeckMaybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
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