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 bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.
I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.
The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.
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.
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.
I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.