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
The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with. John Steinbeck
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. John Steinbeck
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. John Steinbeck
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. John Steinbeck
There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. John Steinbeck
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. John Steinbeck
There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be. John Steinbeck
There’s an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. John Steinbeck
There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. John Steinbeck
There’s something desirable about anything you’re used to as opposed to something you’re not. John Steinbeck
American writer
February 27th, 1902 - December 20th, 1968
