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Letter "J" » John Steinbeck Quotes
«I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?»
«The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
horse racing, race horse, racing, solid, stable
«When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assured, bum, bummed, bums, described, eight, fever, fifty-eight, incurable, incurables, in other words, itch, itched, itches, itching, mature, maturity, middle age, prescribed, prescribes, remedy, senility, someplace, The Job, The Urge, urge, worked
«The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.»
«There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.»
«The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.»
«A book is like a man / clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.»
«And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Strength
| Keywords:
knit, knits, knitted, knitting, repress, repressed, repressing, repression, screaming, strengthen
«The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Husbands,
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
American Woman, castrate, castrated, castrates, castrating, geld, gelded, Her husband
«A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.»
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