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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments...

Firsts Quotes

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.

Book Quotes

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

Book Quotes

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone.

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.

Cathy spoke very quietly. “Adam, I didn’t want to come here. I am not going to stay here. As soon as I can I will go away.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch an’ work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re pound-in’ their tail on some other ranch. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

Lead ’em around and around,’’ said Joad. “Sling ’em in the irrigation ditch. Tell ’em they’ll burn in hell if they don’t think like you. What the hell you want to lead ’em someplace for? Jus’ lead ’em.

But a man needs company.

I ain’t sleepin’. I got too much to puzzle with.

All in all it was a good firm-grounded family, permanent, and successfully planted in the Salinas Valley, not poorer than many and not richer than many either. It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists. Samuel was well pleased with the fruit of his loins.

The first grave. Now we’re getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that’s home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.

Sometimes it rose to an aching chord that caught the throat, saying this is the safety, this is warmth, this is the Whole.

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.

Teresina went often to confession. She was the despair of Father Ramon. Indeed he had seen that while her knees, her hands, and her lips did penance for an old sin, her modest and provocative eyes, flashing under drawn lashes, laid the foundation for a new one. During.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

We have made our mark on the world, but we have really done nothing that the trees and creeping plants, ice and erosion, cannot remove in a fairly short time.

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he’d better do it in a town where he wasn’t known.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn’t necessarily a lie even if it didn’t necessarily happen.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted.

It’s hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

Lanser said, “There are no peaceful people, when will you learn it? There are no friendly people, can’t you understand that?

There’s nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can’t see or hear or touch a man, it’s best to let him go.

Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

Reading Quotes

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that’s what he wants. Mostly it’s women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Maybe – maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure – never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

And of course they were descended from the ancient kings of Ireland, as every Irishman is.

No one could call him a liar. And this was mainly because the lie was in his head, and any truth coming from his mouth carried the color of the lie.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

You ain’t worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

One day we’ll sit and you’ll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now – why, you can’t find all the cards.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.