John Steinbeck Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Years, People

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

• You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Home, Good Memories

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.163, Penguin

• I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.9, Penguin

• She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Memories, Believe

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.29, Penguin

• Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Thinking, Long

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.51, Penguin

• I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Fall, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.233, Penguin

• He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Bothered

• Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Cutting, Men

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Novels and Stories, 1932-1937”

• I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Writing, Printed Word

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