English Quotes

"In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen." John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 13, 2020

“There is a breed of desert men, not hiding exactly but gone to sanctuary from the sins of confusion.” John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 27, 2019

“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?” John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2019

“Tom Wolfe was right. You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.” John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 8, 2018

“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.” John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 4, 2018

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.” John Steinbeck

“The only good writer was a dead writer. Then he couldn't surprise anyone any more, couldn't hurt anyone any more.” John Steinbeck

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found...” John Steinbeck

“Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, beliving nothing we cannot measure or weigh.” John Steinbeck

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck

“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span.” John Steinbeck

“If I were hungry, I would happily hunt anything that runs or crawls or flies, even relatives, and tear them down with my teeth.” John Steinbeck

“The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.” John Steinbeck

“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