John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.was an American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flatand Cannery Row, the multi-generation epic East of Eden, and the novellas Of Mice and Menand The Red Pony. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 February 1902
CountryUnited States of America
I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near
A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson
If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.