Famous Quotes by John Steinbeck

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

John Steinbeck

“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”

John Steinbeck

“Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

John Steinbeck

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

John Steinbeck