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John Ernest Steinbeck, Jr. /ˈstaɪnˌbək/, né le 27 février 1902 à Salinas et mort le 20 décembre 1968 à New York, est un écrivain américain du milieu du XXe siècle, dont les romans décrivent fréquemment sa Californie natale.

Il a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1962.

✵ 27. février 1902 – 20. décembre 1968   •   Autres noms John Ernst Steinbeck
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“Certaines gens croient que c'est insulter la splendeur de leur maladie que d'aller mieux.”

À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Deuxième partie, Chapitre XXII

John Steinbeck Citations

“Une vérité incroyable peut faire plus de mal qu'un mensonge.”

À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Deuxième partie, Chapitre XXII

“On ne peut comprendre les gens que si on les sent en soi-même.”

À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Quatrième partie, Chapitre XXXVIII

“Prenez-vous plaisir à souffrir? demanda Samuel. Vous voyez-vous grand et tragique? — Je ne sais pas.”

Pensez-y. Peut-être jouez-vous un rôle sur une grande scène devant une salle vide.
À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Troisième partie, Chapitre XXIV

“Il y a un meurtrier en chacun de nous, dit le shérif. Trouvez la détente et le coup partira.”

À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Deuxième partie, Chapitre XVIII

John Steinbeck: Citations en anglais

“Nearly everybody has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.”

John Steinbeck livre À l'est d'Éden

Source: East of Eden

“This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”

John Steinbeck livre À l'est d'Éden

Variante: But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
Source: East of Eden

“The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.”

John Steinbeck livre Les Raisins de la colère

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“All of them had a restlessness in common.”

John Steinbeck livre À l'est d'Éden

Source: East of Eden

“Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.”

John Steinbeck livre Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”

John Steinbeck livre The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.”

John Steinbeck livre Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.”

John Steinbeck livre Les Raisins de la colère

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.”

John Steinbeck livre À l'est d'Éden

Variante: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
Source: East of Eden (1952)
Contexte: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.
Contexte: Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning blows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

“I have owed you this letter for a very long time — but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.”

Letter to his literary agent, found on his desk after his death in 1968
Writers at Work (1977)

“My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.”

John Steinbeck livre The Winter of Our Discontent

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

“For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.”

Journal entry (11 June 1938), published in Working Days : The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, 1938-1941 (1990) edited by Robert DeMott

“You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 6, p. 101

“It is so easy a thing to give—only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.”

John Steinbeck livre Burning Bright

Friend Ed to Joe Saul in Act Three, Scene I: The Sea
Burning Bright (1950)

“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.”

When asked his reaction to John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address
Quoted by Atlantic magazine (November 1969)

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