Quotes from Sweet Thursday — John Steinbeck
1902–1968 United States
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"Woman and women is two different things," said Suzy. "Guy knows all about women, he don't know nothing about a woman."
Sweet Thursday (1954)
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)
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
Sweet Thursday (1954)
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, the Bastard Time.
Sweet Thursday (1954)
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time — he can never return to simplicity.
Sweet Thursday (1954)