John Steinbeck Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
John Steinbeck quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased author born on Feb 27, 1902). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 42 we have for him.
“I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.”
“I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.”
“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”
“I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.”
“Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.”
“Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.”
“I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?”
“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.”
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