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 can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.
He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row
If you want to keep a friend, never test him.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
And her joy was nearly like sorrow.
A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
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.