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John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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War Correspondent
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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More quotes by John Steinbeck
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck
One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.
John Steinbeck
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
John Steinbeck
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.
John Steinbeck
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
John Steinbeck
And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.
John Steinbeck
I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
John Steinbeck
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.
John Steinbeck
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
John Steinbeck
Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.
John Steinbeck
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
John Steinbeck
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
John Steinbeck
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
John Steinbeck
I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.
John Steinbeck
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it
John Steinbeck
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.
John Steinbeck
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
John Steinbeck
