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
When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.
That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.
Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.
Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man: