John Steinbeck

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#people #scared #world #men

All great and precious things are lonely. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#lonely

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#strength #strength

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

— John Steinbeck

#dozen #get #handle #how #ideas

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

— John Steinbeck

#loss #light

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#politics #war #failure

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 almost always leads to love. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#hatred #understanding #love

I guess there are never enough books. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#reading #sufficiency #reading-books

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#life #opposites #summer #winter #life

Anything that just costs money is cheap. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#money