John Steinbeck

United States
27 Feb 1902 // 20 Dec 1968
Writer

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

The Winter of Our Discontent


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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays