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Your Quotes for 27 February 2006 - John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was born at Salinas, California on this day in 1902. After graduation from high school in 1920 he entered Stanford and studied marine biology. In five years he failed to graduate, and went to New York City to work as a reporter. Soon fired, he laid brick to pay for his trip home. In hope of emulating Jack London, Steinbeck tried to get work on a merchant vessel but ended up working a long string of manual jobs in California before starting to write seriously. During the '30s he wrote ten novels, including In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. He won the Pulitzer in 1940 and a Nobel in 1962.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts ... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

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

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber, and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.
     - All from John Steinbeck, 1902 - 1968

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