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 Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of. John Steinbeck cameras hate want You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'. John Steinbeck drink-water drink water I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all. John Steinbeck differences guy talking Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'. John Steinbeck lennie littles lying Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them. John Steinbeck air joy people Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled. John Steinbeck garden mind play Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him. John Steinbeck hats dog looks Luck, you see, brings bitter friends. John Steinbeck bitter luck Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta. John Steinbeck lennie right-now George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to. John Steinbeck voice guy world Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'. John Steinbeck different kids people It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change. John Steinbeck passing-away doe people It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it. John Steinbeck accepting knows Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers. John Steinbeck giving men thinking But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win John Steinbeck fighting brother winning He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. John Steinbeck motivational inspirational people In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. John Steinbeck choices criticism attention I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical John Steinbeck three-things logical three This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". John Steinbeck cutting forever people A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. John Steinbeck plans real made
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