3 John Steinbeck Quotes on Memory

John Steinbeck quotes on memory

25. How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

42. Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

43. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.