“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
John Steinbeck kniha East of Eden
Zdroj: East of Eden
John Steinbeck: Citáty v angličtine
John Steinbeck bol americký spisovateľ. Citáty v angličtine.John Steinbeck: 425 citátov88 Páči sa
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
John Steinbeck kniha Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Zdroj: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
John Steinbeck kniha The Short Reign of Pippin IV
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102
John Steinbeck kniha East of Eden
Varianta: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Zdroj: East of Eden
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck kniha East of Eden
Zdroj: East of Eden
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Zdroj: Of Mice and Men
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
John Steinbeck kniha Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Zdroj: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“None of it is important or all of it is.”
John Steinbeck kniha The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Introduction
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
Kontext: "... Let us go," we said, "into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too." And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is.
John Steinbeck kniha Tortilla Flat
Zdroj: Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck kniha East of Eden
Zdroj: East of Eden (1952)
John Steinbeck kniha Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Varianta: What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
Zdroj: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck kniha The Winter of Our Discontent
Zdroj: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.”
John Steinbeck kniha Cannery Row
Zdroj: Cannery Row
John Steinbeck kniha East of Eden
Zdroj: East of Eden
John Steinbeck kniha The Pearl
Zdroj: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III