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Wonniger Donnerstag

Von Mäusen und Menschen, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München 2007, ISBN 978342310797-6, Seite 78 <br class="br">&quot;Books ain&#x27;t no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him.&quot; He whined, &quot;A guy goes nuts if he ain&#x27;t got nobody. Don&#x27;t make no difference who the guy is, long&#x27;s he&#x27;s with you. I tell ya,&quot; he cried, &quot;I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an&#x27; he gets sick.&quot; - Of Mice and Men, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=6DdcE521-BAC&amp;pg=PA64

Sweet Thursday

Sweet Thursday

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."

Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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

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

Quelle: East of Eden

Quelle: Of Mice and Men

Quelle: East of Eden

Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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.

Quelle: Tortilla Flat

Quelle: Of Mice and Men

Quelle: East of Eden (1952)

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

Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent

Quelle: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III

Quelle: Cannery Row

Quelle: East of Eden

Quelle: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III

On Critics
Writers at Work (1977)

Quelle: Of Mice and Men

Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath

Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent

Quelle: East of Eden

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

Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath

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.

Quelle: A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

Quelle: East of Eden