Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. John Steinbeck More Quotes by John Steinbeck More Quotes From John Steinbeck It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. John Steinbeck hours pearls night What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory. John Steinbeck crafts may people For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma. John Steinbeck challenges men two There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place. John Steinbeck prejudice texas confusion I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? John Steinbeck uneasy guilt feels The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’. John Steinbeck wall philosophy lying People don't want advice...only corroboration. John Steinbeck want advice people Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do. John Steinbeck lord watches life Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. John Steinbeck team football war You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast. John Steinbeck boast ifs You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future. John Steinbeck three people past It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones. John Steinbeck science children knowledge A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. John Steinbeck self love-is men I believe that love cannot be bought except with love. John Steinbeck i-believe love believe We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not. John Steinbeck dont-care care knows Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough John Steinbeck good-enough new-york home You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff John Steinbeck bounds ifs stuff Don't make everyone know about your sadness. John Steinbeck sadness knows A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences. John Steinbeck animal boys moving I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference. John Steinbeck differences mind want
