John Steinbeck Quotes

“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“as he stood there, love came to Big Joe Portagee. It sang in his head; it roared through his body like a great freshet; it shook him as a tropical storm shakes a forest of palms.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

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“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes, it’ll on’y be one.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“Death was a friend, and sleep was death’s brother.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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