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
“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”
Variante: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Quelle: East of Eden
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Kontext: Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“There are some times… when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”
Quelle: To a God Unknown
“I'm jus' pain covered with skin.”
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
“You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now."
"Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.”
Quelle: Of Mice and Men
“No one wants advice, only corroboration.”
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VI
“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”
Quelle: East of Eden
“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
Quelle: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“And her joy was nearly like sorrow.”
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath
“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”
Quelle: Of Mice and Men
“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”
Quelle: Sweet Thursday
“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath