He was an American writer of German-Irish ancestry. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was entitled The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and
totally he wrote of twenty-seven books. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He worked as a reporter in New York, but was fired so continued as hod carrier,
apprentice painter, caretaker, surveyor and fruitpicker. During World War Two, Steinbeck became a war correspondent and later
worled with special reporting assignments abroad. Steinbeck was a controversial writer because of his support for the underprivileged.
(1902-1968)
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
~ John Steinbeck
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
~ John Steinbeck
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
~ John Steinbeck
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing,
and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~ John Steinbeck
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any
other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
~ John Steinbeck
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
~ John Steinbeck
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you.
You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
~ John Steinbeck
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the
stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~ John Steinbeck
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
~ John Steinbeck
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we
would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
~ John Steinbeck
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
~ John Steinbeck
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a
tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
~ John Steinbeck
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
~ John Steinbeck
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember
our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
~ John Steinbeck
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.
~ John Steinbeck
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
~ John Steinbeck
The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
~ John Steinbeck
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
~ John Steinbeck
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
~ John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
~ John Steinbeck
Russian author, essayist and philosopher. He is one of the world's pre-eminent writers becoming famous through his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Towards the end of his life, Leo Tolstoy
became increasingly interested in a version of pacifist Christianity with support for a strand of anarchist Communism. His exposition
of pacifism, vegetarianism and non-violence had a profound influence on famous personalities like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi considered Leo Tolstoy to be "the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced".
(1828-1910)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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