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
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself. John Steinbeck
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. John Steinbeck
It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way. John Steinbeck
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight. John Steinbeck
It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it. John Steinbeck
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. John Steinbeck
It’s one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man. John Steinbeck
American writer
February 27th, 1902 - December 20th, 1968
