Category: Author John Steinbeck

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don’t need… Stuff settin’ out there, you jus’ feel like buyin’ it whether you need it or not.-Uncle John John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 2 I don’t know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping…

Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it’s part of him, and it’s like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn’t doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it,…

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 16 The land is so much more than its analysis. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 16 Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man…

No one could call him a liar. And this was mainly because the lie was in his head, and any truth coming from his mouth carried the color of the lie. John Steinbeck East of Eden 1 Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block.…

You’re getting well,’ Samuel said. ‘Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around. John Steinbeck East of Eden 19 All of them had a restlessness in common. John Steinbeck East of Eden…

Lee went quickly out of the kitchen. He sat in his room, gripping his hands tightly together until hestopped choking. He got up and took a small carved ebony box from the top of his bureau. A dragonclimbed toward heaven on the box. He carried the box to the kitchen and laid it on the…

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. John Steinbeck East of Eden 37 [He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world– that the girl you are in love with can’t possibly be anything but true and honest. John Steinbeck East of Eden…

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments. John Steinbeck East of Eden 0 muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him— goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 0 Cuando uno sabe que un amigo está cerca, no va a verlo.…

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. I been hunted now for a long time. I ain’t a hunter no more. I’d maybe shoot a fella in the dark, but I don’t maul nobody with a fence stake no more. It don’t…

The bunk was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap…