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
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“I think I love you, Cal." -Abra
I'm not good." -Cal
Because you're not good." -Abra”
Quelle: East of Eden
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
Quelle: East of Eden (1952)
“We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.”
Quelle: Of Mice and Men
“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”
Quelle: East of Eden
“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”
Quelle: Cannery Row
“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
Quelle: Tortilla Flat
Quelle: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”
Quelle: East of Eden
“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”
Lennie, in Ch. 3, p. 57
Quelle: Of Mice and Men (1937)
“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”
Quelle: East of Eden
“I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.”
Quelle: Of Mice and Men
“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent
“There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers…”
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”
Quelle: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III
“He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.”
Quelle: East of Eden