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. John Steinbeck View this quote
Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants. Mostly it’s women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? John Steinbeck
At about 10 o’clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars. John Steinbeck
Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world. John Steinbeck
Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. John Steinbeck
Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone. John Steinbeck
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death’s brother. John Steinbeck
Don’t make everyone know about your sadness. John Steinbeck
Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it. John Steinbeck
Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn’t important enough to me to be an obsession. John Steinbeck
American writer
February 27th, 1902 - December 20th, 1968
