But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
Blaisedell, the poet, had said to him, 'You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a beer milk shake.' It was a simple piece of foolery but it had bothered Doc ever since. He wond...
At last he said, Did you come out of the big mountains?Gitano shook his head slowly. No, I walked down the Salinas Valley.The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. Did you ever go into the big moun...
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.
And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in between anywhere.
And the girl,' Lanser continued, 'the girl, Lieutenant, you may rape her, or protect her, or marry her--that is of no importance so long as you shoot her when it is ordered.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
And he saw the right evening star reflected in her eyes, and he saw the black cloud reflected in her eyes.
And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.Because he loved true things, he tried to explain. He said he was nervous and besides he wanted to see the country, smell the gro...
After a while you'll think no thought the others do not think. You'll know no word the others can't say. And you'll do things because the others do them. You'll feel the danger in any difference whate...
A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
It's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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...
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job a...
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
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'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 must name a thing before you can note it on your hand drawn map.