You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is...
I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
We had to start somewhere, either succeed or fail, and then build what we knew as we went along.
Death happened often enough that a certain melancholy existed between the young men and women of the little West Virginia town when they made their daily farewells
You let Kerns hit the ball. Question is why? I wanted to let him keep his dignity. Thompson
The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.
Death ain’t nothin’, the tied-up man retorted. It’s how you die. Watch me, boys, and learn somethin’!
Blue suede shoes
I had my fun with you yesterday, Homer, with Bruiser and all, but I hope you know I care about you. You’re a good man, maybe too good by a sight, so keep in mind there’s a Depression out where you’re...
All I’ve done is give you a book, she said. You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.
Let me find you. If you don’t, I will still look. If you won’t, I will still look. If you can’t, I will still look. It is the looking that finds the love, Not the finding. Homer
It was during a strike when I first saw hate on a man’s face. Hate is an awful thing. It gets inside you and makes you do things you swear you’d never do.
My agent in Miami told me you were coming. I like to keep up with who’s coming to my island, especially government and railroad men. Typically, I don’t like either one but considering your girl here a...
I’m a writer. These people are American nomads, forever on the move, trying to feed themselves and their families. I’m thinking about writing a book about them. My name is John Steinbeck. Perhaps you’...
Carter opened the leather cover of the document and spread out its papers. He pretended to study them for a moment although he could quote them by rote. A good lawyer is also a good actor and a dramat...
But that’s what kismet is. It makes us careen off in odd directions from which we learn not only what life is about but what it is for. This journey may be nothing less than your chance to discover th...
As Elsie showered, she realized she had learned something. She was attracted to the kind of man Denver was. He drove fast and was dangerous and handsome but, she reflected, he was also, in his own way...
You clearly are a remarkable man, she said, to travel with such creatures. The rooster is much more than he seems, as is the alligator. But, of course, you know that. Homer
Dilly Trammel shot me as I was climbing out. Jim winced, as if the memory made him get shot all over again. Trudy and me heard him at the front door—an hour before he should’ve been home, by the way—b...
Time is really the only gift we receive from God that we can give to others.