We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
("East of Eden")
More Quotes from John Steinbeck:
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.John Steinbeck
She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did.
John Steinbeck
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history; repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
John Steinbeck
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.
John Steinbeck
We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
John Steinbeck
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Good & Evil Quotes, Literature Quotes, Poetry QuotesThe gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
Polly Berrien Berends
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
Philip Pullman
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Philip Guston