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Out of a thousand centuries they drew the ancient admiration of the footman for the horseman. They knew instinctively that a man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.
What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don't understand why.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.
Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1962)
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
And now, our submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
There is the will of the people to endure and fight against oppression. I think we call this the American spirit.
You are a good man, Sire, and a good man draws women as cheese draws mice.
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
This is the story of Danny and of Danny’s friends and of Danny’s house.
Tortilla Flat (1935)
In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.
He didn't believe in psychiatrists, he said. But actually he did believe in them, so much that he was afraid of them.
The Wayward Bus (1947)
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no pants rabbits.
Of Mice and Men (1937)
The incident seemed to prove to me that intentions, good or bad, are not enough.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)