187 quotes
Most people live in a half-dream all their lives and call it reality.
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
The things everyone knows are most likely to be wrong.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
What pillow can one have like a good conscience?
Tortilla Flat (1935)
The candle aimed its spear of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.
Tortilla Flat (1935)
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
Of Mice and Men (1937)
Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Sweet Thursday (1954)
You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
Of Mice and Men (1937)
A crime is something someone else commits.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people.
An artist should be open on all sides to every kind of light and darkness.
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished…
East of Eden (1952)
It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.
Tortilla Flat (1935)
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business.
We are no better than the animals; in fact in a lot of ways we aren't as good.
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.