The Long Valley Quotes

“A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

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― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“Jody knew one thing more sharply than he had ever known anything. He must never tell anyone about the rapier. It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was a truth that might be shattered by division.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“He was changed. The fragile quality seemed to have gone from his chin. His mouth was less full than it had been, the lines of the lips were straighter, but in his eyes the greatest change had taken place. There was no laughter in them any more, nor any bashfulness. They were sharp and bright and purposeful.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“What a skunk I am,” Harry said to himself “What a dirty skunk, to kill a thing she loved so much.” He dropped his head and looked at the floor. “I’m lonely,” he said. “Oh, Lord, I’m so lonely!”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“He tried so hard to understand when she told him things. He wanted to understand, and he never quite succeeded. If she told him about this vision tonight, he would ask questions. He would turn the thing over and over, trying to understand it, until finally he ruined it. He didn’t want to spoil the things she told him, but he just couldn’t help it. He needed too much light on things that light shriveled.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“She didn’t think so much, “Would this man like such a garden?” but, “Would the garden like such a man?” For the garden was herself, and after all she had to marry some one she liked.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“I’m strong,” she boasted. “I never knew before how strong.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

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― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“Her face was eager and mature and handsome; even her work with the scissors was over-eager, over-powerful. The chrysanthemum stems seemed too small and easy for her energy.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“Steinbeck’s primary aim as a writer was always to tell a good story.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“The Pastures of Heaven, most of which were written in 1931 and published together in 1932, represent a tremendous improvement in stylistic craft. Steinbeck learned to temper the grandiose, to use imagery as a pattern revealing character rather than for its own sake, to control point of view in the arrangement of character and plot. In effect, he was learning to rely upon the story itself, and to let that have center stage, while he subdued his considerable stylistic talents to a supporting role in the story’s revelation.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“pattern was a major one for Steinbeck throughout this decade, parlayed powerfully into the novels Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“By confronting the desolation of loss, one also focuses the challenges that lead to growth. Often”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“Steinbeck intended to explore “the desolation of loss”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“Thereby also emerges Steinbeck’s third major pattern: the isolated individual in conflict with some larger social structure.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley

“He would turn the thing over and over, trying to understand it, until finally he ruined it. He didn’t want to spoil the things she told him, but he just couldn’t help it. He needed too much light on things that light shriveled. No, she wouldn’t tell him.”
― John Steinbeck, The Long Valley