John Steinbeck Berühmte Zitate
Zitate über Männer von John Steinbeck
Zitate über Menschen von John Steinbeck
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
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."
John Steinbeck: Zitate auf Englisch
“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
Quelle: East of Eden
“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Quelle: East of Eden (1952)
Kontext: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.
“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
“He never fell,
never slipped back,
never flew.”
Quelle: East of Eden
“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
“Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
“Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.”
Quelle: East of Eden
“Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.”
Quelle: Cannery Row
“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Pt. 2
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent