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
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
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. John Steinbeck
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have. John Steinbeck
For the most part people are not curious except about themselves. John Steinbeck
Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play. John Steinbeck
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. John Steinbeck
Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant. John Steinbeck
Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. John Steinbeck
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. John Steinbeck
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love. John Steinbeck
American writer
February 27th, 1902 - December 20th, 1968
