steinbeck Quotes

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.”

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”

“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.”

“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”