John Steinbeck Quotes About Impulse

Quotes about: Impulse

• I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

  John Steinbeck

  Spiritual, Sweet, Passion

• The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Husband, Son

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.294, Penguin

• He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.52, Penguin

• Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Tails, Good God

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

• The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.

  John Steinbeck

  Confused, Book, Reality

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.29, Penguin

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