Quotes from John Steinbeck

Hay más belleza en la verdad, aunque sea una verdad terrible. Los narradores de historias de las ciudades falsean de tal manera la vida, que la hacen parecer dulce a los ojos de los perezosos, de los estúpidos y de los débiles, y eso sólo contribuye a reforzar sus flaquezas, sin enseñarles nada, ni hacerles el menor bien, ni engrandecer su corazón

in addition to eminence, superiority has two other qualities or rather three—simplicity, clarity and generosity.

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 leprous.

Para cometer una mala acción hay que anhelar algo

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

She loved him. She really did. And he knew it. and you can't leave a thing like that.

Mack's eyes looked off into space and his lips were parted. He could see it all. "Hughie," he said, "I think you got something there. I never would of thought you could do it, but by God you really rang a duck that time.

when people have heard of you, favorably or not, they change; they become, through shyness or the other qualities that publicity inspires, something they are not under ordinary circumstances

Will said, Are we partners? yes sir yes Will yes Will How soon can you get $5000? by next Wednesday shake Solemnly the stout man and the lean dark boy shook hands. Will, still holding Cals hand said Now were partners.

If only I wouldn't take this book so seriously. It is just a book after all, and a book is very dead in a very short time. And I'll be dead in a very short time too. So the hell with it. Let's slow down, not in pace or wordage but in nerves.

And sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start.

think it is the symbol story of the human soul. I'm feeling my way now—don't jump on me if I'm not clear. The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt—and there is the story of mankind

You couldn't get into him—he couldn't get out to you. But in that old agony there had been no wall. In his wife Adam had touched the living world.

dissipated. The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green

No hay espíritu más desprendido en el mundo que el de un pobre a quien de pronto favorece la fortuna.

Also, I am not shy about admitting that I am an incorrigible Peeping Tom. I have never passed an unshaded window without looking in, have never closed my ears to a conversation that was none of my business. I can justify or even dignify this by protesting that in my trade I must know about people, but I suspect that I am simply curious.

rose like cream to the top of milk.

Sad as they were at his moral decay, the friends were not a little jealous of the good time Danny was having.

Well, we all got to make a livin'.'' "Yeah,'' Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

them," he said. "The dust is warm," said Samuel. "Now it goes this way. 'And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from the Lord."

He found that he could communicate his material daydreaming—and, properly applied, that is all advertising is.

Hay?r, ölmekte olan kiÅŸiyi sevebilir, nefret edebilir, arkas?ndan aÄŸlayabilir, özleyebilirsiniz; ama öldüÄŸü zaman o art?k karma??k ve resmi bir sosyal kutlaman?n ana malzemesi, baÅŸl?ca süs olup ç?kar.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Peut-être le savoir est-il trop grand, mais peut-être aussi l'homme devient-il trop petit. Peut-être qu'à force de s'agenouiller devant les atomes il finit par avoir une âme de la taille de ce qu'il adore. Peut-être le spécialiste n'est-il qu'un lâche qui a peur de regarder le monde extérieur à sa petite cage. Pensez à ce qu'il perd, votre spécialiste : le monde entier qui palpite de l'autre côté de sa clôture.