John Steinbeck Quotes and Quotations
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable
business.
John Steinbeck
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel,
and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot
hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control
it.
John Steinbeck
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and
set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar
like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there
are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the
greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense
of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John Steinbeck
Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch
it, and so slowly if we do.
John Steinbeck
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought
or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings
no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in
the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: "Beware. You will never
get out of this world alive."
John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and
pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
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