Author of quotes: John Steinbeck. Page 3

- Curious thing, a sense of sinfulness, noted Samuel. - If man had to abandon all that he has to remain naked and barefoot, shake out the pockets, and soul, he, I think, and then managed to hide somewhere five small sins for his own concern. If we for that and hanging on by my fingernails, so this is for our sins.
- Maybe the consciousness of our sinfulness helps us feel a great humility. And gives us fear of the wrath of God.
- Yes, probably. I think the feeling of worthlessness is also given to us not without good intent, because you can hardly find a person deprived of this feeling at all; but as for humility, its value is difficult to understand, although, perhaps, it is logical to assume that the flour taken with humility, sweet and beautiful. What is suffering?.. Not sure of its nature we understand correctly.

The Irish are not so merry. They are the people Moody and can resign ourselves to the suffering that is not deserved. It's about them saying that they would themselves have decided on, Yes it is good whisky, and with it the world more beautiful, and soul facilitates.

The future promised boundless, infinite possibility. Happiness people will just complete pants! Abundance will flood into the Valley turbulent flow as the Salinas river in March days the rich rains of the year. <...> And perhaps in one only Samuel went lightly for the mind: you see, he doubted whether the people are happy when a wonderful the time has finally come. <...> the Appetite does not know the steps, said Samuel. - Give man a sweet cake, will eat it so that he's got this cake from the nose climbs, and give him more.

Olivia possessed great courage. Likely to raise children, this quality is necessary. And I just have to tell you how Olivia got away with the first world war. Thinking Olivia was alien categories on an international scale. <...> So Olivia doesn't really believe that the war began, and continued not to believe, even when salinski squadron of volunteer cavalry, came under the call, put the horses to the wagons and left in an unknown direction. <...> you Know the Germans Olivia and if they were smarter, they would from the skin of my teeth, only she had not angered. But they didn't know her, and maybe were fools. Killing Martin That they lost the war, because my mother was furious, and grabbed them, rolling up his sleeves. She loved Martin Khops. It is for his life and never harmed a soul. When the Germans killed him, Olivia had declared the German Empire war.

Of all the Hamiltonian, except for Lisa, Olivia, distinguished by the highest integrity of nature. Her religious beliefs were a strange mixture: fairies from Irish fairy tales side by side in its theological system with the old Testament Jehovah, which she later confused with his father. Paradise in view, Olivia was a cozy house, which was inhabited by her deceased relatives. All distressing in the surrounding reality, Olivia simply brushed aside, flatly refusing to believe that such a thing exists, and when it tried to convince, was angry in earnest. As the story goes, one day she wept bitterly when he realized that I will not be able to dance on two points. One ball arranged in Greenfield, and the other, another Saturday night, - twenty miles from Greenfield, in San Lucas. <...> She did not want to believe that this is impossible, but was not capable of coping with this distressing fact, and therefore, crying anger, did not go either in Greenfield or in San Lucas.

- Must be hard to kill people you don't know and against which I have nothing.
- Or, conversely, easily, ' said Louis.
- Well, also makes sense. You see, Lewis, there are people who truly love this world, but there are others, those that hate themselves and spread their hatred to all others - their anger is spreading in all directions, like butter on hot bread.

How true the saying: a hungry man in the dream lunch - and then happiness.

Enlightenment fills the world with light and transforms it in a flash, rocket transforms the battlefield.

Suddenly he realized that joy and sadness are parts of a common whole. Courage and fear also go hand in hand.

Women, they are all the same. A Chapter will close, and all do not feel the difference.

Mr. Edwards was, in General, nature is not difficult, but even in a simple soul has its nooks and crannies, dark and intricate. Catherine was intelligent, but intelligent woman not see all the forks in the maze of thoughts and feelings men.

I don't understand why a girl like you... - he began, and at the same moment fell victim to the ancient fallacy, axioms stating that the girl you love can't be dishonest or deceitful.

Almost every man hides in himself any irrepressible desires, passions and feelings, ready to burst at any moment; the calm surface often hides beneath the reefs of selfishness, greed and lust. Most of us either keep their nature in check, or give her the will secretly. <...> ... sex with all the attendant languor and suffering, jealousy and prohibitions - excites and stirs a person more than all other passions. And in those days sex was stirs people even more painful than it is now, because this topic is not discussed, it eschewed silence. Everyone hid in this blazing fire and the people pretended that nothing could not be, but as soon as the flame out of your little hell breaks out, you appeared in front of him helpless.

Making meanness or cruelty, the man crucified himself, thought Adam, and therefore needs someone for the pain to punish.