Posts tagged steinbeck

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden  (via ransombookquotes)