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
The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.
So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.
Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world
There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.
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.
George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.