Quotes of John Steinbeck - somelinesforyou

“ No-one wants advice only corroboration. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ All great and precious things are lonely. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ People don’t take trips… trips take people. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ All great and precious things are lonely. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ No one wants advice – only corroboration. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no other place is good enough. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ People don’t take trips. . .trips take people. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ”

- John Steinbeck
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