1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

In the souls of people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

But Kino had lost his old world and he must clamber on to a new one. For his dream of the future was real and never to be destroyed, and he said "I will go," and that made a real thing too.

What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work. "We see his own appetite for life, his mix of urgency with compassion . . . the artistic thrust of his photography always had more to do with its emotional pitch, which remained genuine and deeply felt." Or, in Capa's own words, a great picture "is a cut out of the whole event which will show more of the real truth of the affair to some one who was not there than the whole scene.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

Never did seem right to me. S'pose Curley jumps a big guy an' licks him. Ever'body says what a game guy Curley is. And s'pose he does the same thing and gets licked. Then ever'body says the big guy oughtta pick somebody his own size, and maybe they gang up on the big guy. Seems like Curley ain't givin' nobody a chance.

The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.

All of them had a restlessness in common.