John Steinbeck quotes
5 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as John Steinbeck wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around.
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have. Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope.
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.
So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man — and the Word is with Men.
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