John Steinbeck Quotes
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. Viking Press, 1961.
This extreme position illustrates how a politician, trying to defend a particular position can get carried away and lose rational sense of balance. The air we breath is free and quite valuable—essential really. The exercise of most of our political rights is without charge. Legitimate religions do not require payment.
Describing the right under the Constitution for the deposed military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, as a former head of state to become a Lifetime Senator:
Alluding to the high cost of the NASA space program and playing off the "free lunch" phrase that is used so often.
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.
