{"author":"John Steinbeck","author_id":"John+Steinbeck","total_quotes":375,"quotes":[{"text":"No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["fate"],"id":138,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["mornings","new-beginnings","steinbeck","travel"],"id":754,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["childhood","landscape","memory","plants","time"],"id":788,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad or a stimulant.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["hate","love"],"id":1838,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["wisdom"],"id":2423,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["extinction","farming","human-development","production","thought","war"],"id":2530,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"And don't worry about losing. If I is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["lost","love"],"id":4724,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["travel","time","long "],"id":6116,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["truth"],"id":6808,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At the end of each stunt he looked back, and each time she encouraged him. Afterward he said over and over, 'She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. I tore up the rule book and she wanted more. Good Christ, what a pilot she would have made!","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["bravery","comedy","misunderstanding"],"id":7108,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":375,"pages":38,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}