John Steinbeck Quotes - Page 5

I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'thou mayest'.

The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness.

Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

Kur pinigai, ten įprastos elgesio normos gali ilsėtis.

this nickel, unlike most money, has actually done a job of work, has been physically responsible for a reaction

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is-and a woman too, I guess.

Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.