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
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. John Steinbeck
Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning. John Steinbeck
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra. John Steinbeck
We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. John Steinbeck
We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent. John Steinbeck
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing. John Steinbeck
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. John Steinbeck
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else. John Steinbeck
With a few exceptions people don’t want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration. John Steinbeck
American writer
February 27th, 1902 - December 20th, 1968
