1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

Có những khoảnh khắc còn quý báu hơn cả cuộc đời. Và những khoảnh khắc đó luôn thắp sáng những hồi ức

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

Perhaps that might be the way to write this book--to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the buyer man would get much more, but they didn't know how to do it. Merchandising was a secret to them.