Tortilla Flat Quotes

“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

topic:love

“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

topic:God

“Things that happen are of no importance . . . But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

topic:learning experience

“It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

topic:imagination

“It is worse than whipping to be laughed at.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

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