Tag: John Steinbeck

You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff

John Steinbeck

It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

John Steinbeck

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

John Steinbeck

When a man comes to die,

no matter what his talents and influences and genius,

if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him

and his dying a cold horror.

John Steinbeck

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

John Steinbeck

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

John Steinbeck

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

John Steinbeck

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

John Steinbeck

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

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