“For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.”
-The Pearl quotes by John Steinbeck
“Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“He said, “I am a man,” and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction – and that was conversation.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”
-The Pearl quotes by John Steinbeck
“Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him .And they began this day with hope.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“He had said, “I am a man,” and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and halfgod.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck
“Pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck, a little pat on the back by God or the gods or both.”
-The Pearl by John Steinbeck