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
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. John Steinbeck
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Anything that just costs money is cheap. John Steinbeck
Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now. John Steinbeck
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back. John Steinbeck
If you are in love – that’s a good thing – that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. John Steinbeck
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick. John Steinbeck
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. John Steinbeck
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck
It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with God or the gods. John Steinbeck
It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it. John Steinbeck
American writer
February 27th, 1902 - December 20th, 1968