John Steinbeck Quotes

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Love, Success, Men

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

Teacher, Great, Mind

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

Marriage, Control, Wrong

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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

Wisdom, Morning, Experience

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck

Sad, Soul, Germ

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
John Steinbeck

Struggle, Person, Two

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
John Steinbeck

Hurt, Help, Poor

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John Steinbeck

Time, Long, After

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck

Eyes, Seen, Dogs

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

Pretty, Learn, Ideas

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck

Best, Human, Himself

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck

Power, Fear, Loss

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck

Growing, Souls, Heavy

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

Death, Live, Thought

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck

Give, Play, Write

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck

Change, Men, Wind

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck

Time, Enough, Start

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

Pride, Grateful, Lion

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
John Steinbeck

Good, Hell, Weather

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck

Time, Hate, Security

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck

Hate, Everything, Sure

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
John Steinbeck

Steps, Trap, Sets

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck

Rain, Find, Falling

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck

Courage, Give, Ignore

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck

Work, Universe, Ahead

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 27, 1902

Died: December 20, 1968

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