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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

John Steinbeck Zitate und Sprüche

„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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John Steinbeck: Zitate auf Englisch

“He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.”

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

“Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.”

John Steinbeck buch The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

“There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.”

John Steinbeck buch The Winter of Our Discontent

Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XXI

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

As quoted in A Short History of Progress (2004) by Ronald Wright. This has since been cited as a direct quote by some, but the remark may simply be a paraphrase, as no quotation marks appear around the statement and no earlier publication of this phrasing has been located.
This is perhaps an incorrect quote from Steinbeck's article "A Primer on the '30s." Esquire, June 1960: 85-93.
"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.

"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
Disputed
Quelle: "John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires", [Ronald, Wright, A Short History of Progress, 2004, 124, Anansi Press, Toronto, https://books.google.com/books?id=nzWPFQIEvfEC&q=%22temporarily+embarrassed+millionaires%22#v=snippet&q=%22temporarily%20embarrassed%20millionaires%22&f=false]

“The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business.”

John Steinbeck buch The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), but a statement he is first quoted as having made in Newsweek (24 December 1962)

“It is odd how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place — everyone must have one, although I have never heard of a man tell of it.”

John Steinbeck buch The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Variante: It is odd how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place — everyone must have one, although I have never heard of a man tell of it.

“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.”

John Steinbeck buch The Winter of Our Discontent

Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter V

“Well, God knows he don't need any brains to buck barley bags. But don't you try to put nothing over, Milton. I got my eye on you.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

George; "buck" here means to work at lifting and throwing the sacks of barley
Of Mice and Men (1937)

“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.”

As quoted by John Kenneth Galbraith in the Introduction to The Affluent Society (1977 edition)

“All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.”

John Steinbeck buch The Winter of Our Discontent

Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XI

“A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.”

John Steinbeck buch The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter

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