Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing. John Steinbeck More Quotes by John Steinbeck More Quotes From John Steinbeck It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous. John Steinbeck angel white snow Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change? John Steinbeck yesterday men thinking ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands. John Steinbeck men book hands It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat. John Steinbeck lazy fighting humble Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress. John Steinbeck mistress dangerous stills The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size. John Steinbeck size wrath waiting Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head. John Steinbeck land heaven book Men all do about the same thing when they wake up. John Steinbeck wake-up morning men The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up. John Steinbeck giving-up littles men At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig. John Steinbeck horse race boys I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe. John Steinbeck breathe writing When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley John Steinbeck hunters different strong for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. John Steinbeck pain emotion remember He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. John Steinbeck insane men life ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them. John Steinbeck bulls fighting men The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so. John Steinbeck cities running men A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there. John Steinbeck festivals funeral kind I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment. John Steinbeck hangover punishment taken I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair. John Steinbeck despair house men But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer. John Steinbeck habit answers wanted
