John Steinbeck Quotes

“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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“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:truth beauty

“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“It is the hour of the pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”

― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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“Every man has a retirement picture in which he does those things he never had time to do”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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