Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!
John SteinbeckLiterature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.
John SteinbeckThere is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.
John SteinbeckThen it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
John SteinbeckThe camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.
John Steinbeck