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 seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do. John Steinbeck Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. John Steinbeck The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic. John Steinbeck Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals. John Steinbeck