“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, scared of each other
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: weird loving friendship, look after you, Connection, Understanding, Care
“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: first lines of books, California, Monterey County
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. 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 nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social cha…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: Hate, Love, Friendship, Understanding
“We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: Gratitude, Opinions
“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: kindness, Compassion, Intelligence
“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Lonely, humanity
“Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Solitude, Love
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: Life, Scared, Relationships
“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.comTagged: moment, Time, Stop, mindful