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John Ernst Steinbeck gehört zu den erfolgreichsten US-amerikanischen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Er schrieb zahlreiche Romane, Kurzgeschichten und Novellen, arbeitete zeitweilig auch als Journalist und war im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1943 als Kriegsberichterstatter tätig. 1940 erhielt er den Pulitzer-Preis für seinen Roman Früchte des Zorns und 1962 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.

✵ 27. Februar 1902 – 20. Dezember 1968   •   Andere Namen John Ernst Steinbeck
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„Bücher helfen ei'm nich. Jeder Mensch braucht 'n andern - jemand, der in der Nähe is.' Weinerlich fuhr er fort: 'Ein Mensch geht kaputt, wenn er niemand hat. Macht keinen Unterschied, wer's is, wenn man nur jemand hat. Kann dir sagen', rief er erregt, 'man wird sonst zu einsam und wird elend.“

Von Mäusen und Menschen, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München 2007, ISBN 978342310797-6, Seite 78
"Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." - Of Mice and Men, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=6DdcE521-BAC&pg=PA64

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„Im bürgerlichen Leben wird man wegen Dingen bestraft, die man tut; die militärischen Regeln fügen aber ein neues Prinzip hinzu - man wird auch wegen Dingen bestraft, die man nicht tut.“

Tortilla Flat, The New American Library of World Literature Inc, New York 1959, S. 57, Übersetzung: Nino Barbieri
Original engl.: "In civilian life, one is punished for things one does; but army codes add a new principle to this – they punish a man for things he does not do."

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“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”

John Steinbeck buch Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

John Steinbeck buch The Short Reign of Pippin IV

The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102

“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 indestructible.”

John Steinbeck buch East of Eden

Variante: 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.
Quelle: East of Eden

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

John Steinbeck buch East of Eden

Quelle: East of Eden

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”

John Steinbeck buch Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“None of it is important or all of it is.”

John Steinbeck buch 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.

“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”

John Steinbeck buch Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Variante: What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Time is the only critic without ambition.”

On Critics
Writers at Work (1977)

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”

John Steinbeck buch The Grapes of Wrath

Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

John Steinbeck buch The Winter of Our Discontent

Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini

“In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.”

Journal entry (1938), quoted in the Introduction to a 1994 edition of Of Mice and Men by Susan Shillinglaw, p. vii
Kontext: In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.

“I guess there are never enough books.”

Quelle: A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

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