East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath Quotes

“The Salinas was only a part-time river. The summer sun drove it underground. It was not a fine river at all, but it was the only one we had and so we boasted about it—how dangerous it was in a wet winter and how dry it was in a dry summer. You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“And I guess humility must be a good thing, since it’s a rare man who has not a piece of it, but when you look at humbleness it’s hard to see where its value rests unless you grant that it is a pleasurable pain and very precious. Suffering—I wonder has it been properly looked at.”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“It wasn’t all bad or cheap or hysterical. There was heroism too. Some men who could have avoided the army enlisted”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“At intervals Salinas suffered from a mild eructation of morality. The process never varied much. One burst was like another. Sometimes it started in the pulpit and sometimes with a new ambitious president of the Women’s Civic Club. Gambling was invariably the sin to be eradicated. There were certain advantages in attacking gambling. One could discuss it”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“Yes”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“Can that be possible? How do I understand you?” “That’s why I’m talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“You have a point”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“You’re right. I do”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“by starvation”
― John Steinbeck, East of eden and Grapes of Wrath

“But Aron had reached a point of passionate purity that made everyone else foul.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. “Observe”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“see.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot say, unless it could be that the morning came over the peaks of the Gabilans and the night drifted back from the ridges of the Santa Lucias. It may be that the birth and death of the day had some part in my feeling about the two ranges of mountains.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath