Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plent…

John Steinbeck
483 citations
Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head. ✨ John Steinbeck (2016). Of Mice and Men, p.36, Hamilton Books
Reading Time
16

More Author Quotes

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you cou … ▶
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of … ▶
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utt … ▶
Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is tr … ▶
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. ✨ John Steinbeck (1989). Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, p.160, Penguin

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes