Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by John Steinbeck.
Top 25 John Steinbeck Quotes and Sayings
Anything that just costs money is cheap.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
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.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel - "Thou mayest" - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if "Thou mayest" - it is also true that "Thou mayest not".
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
All great and precious things are lonely.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
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