Best John Steinbeck Quotes and Quotations

Best John Steinbeck Quotes and Quotations

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid and stable business.
John Steinbeck
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck
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A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck
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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John Steinbeck
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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.
John Steinbeck
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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
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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
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."
John Steinbeck
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck