Famous Quotes by John Steinbeck

Below are famous quotes by John Steinbeck - US novelist (1902 - 1968).

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

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