A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethi...
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, t...
İnsan bazen o kadar kendi dışında davranır ki, size '' Bunu yapmış olamaz. Karakterine aykırı, dedirtir. Belki de değildir. Yalnızca başka bir açı söz konusu olabilir veya yukarıdan aşağıdan gelen bas...
[On neighbors looking over his camper:] I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation--a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any...
You’re pretty full of yourself. You’re marveling at the tragic spectacle of Caleb Trask—Caleb themagnificent, the unique. Caleb whose suffering should have its Homer. Did you ever think of yourselfas...
You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by t...
You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes I think you're a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that a...
You're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord....
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.
You can only fight Fate so far, and when you give in to it you're very strong; because all of your force flows in one direction.
Yes, I’ll be glad. And she said suddenly, There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.He looked quickly at her in astonishment at her statement of his own t...
With all the polls and opinions posts, with newspapers more opinion than news so that we no longer know one from the other....
When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that...
Well, Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled l...
We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to hel...
To the stars, on the wings of a pig.