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John Ernst Steinbeck amerikai regény-, novella- és színdarabíró. Összesen huszonöt könyvet írt: tizenhat regényt, két novelláskötetet, és különböző prózai műveket. The Grapes of Wrath című regénye, valamint az Of Mice and Men színdarabváltozata Pulitzer-díjat nyertek. 1962-ben irodalmi Nobel-díjban részesült. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. február 1902 – 20. december 1968   •   Más nevek John Ernst Steinbeck
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„Két év után úgy éreztük, meg tudjuk közelíteni azt a maga tizenhat versét, a Teremtés Könyvének negyedik fejezetéből. Az én öreguraim is úgy érezték, hogy ez a két szó: „uralkodni fogsz” és „uralkodjál””

igen nagy jelentőségű. És az eredmény, az arany, amit a hosszú bányászat eredményezett, ez volt: „Lehetőséged van rá.” Vagyis: neked megvan a lehetőséged arra, hogy legyőzd a bűnt, hogy uralkodjál rajta.
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John Steinbeck: Idézetek angolul

“We are no better than the animals; in fact in a lot of ways we aren't as good.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Forrás: The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951), Chapter 9

“What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don't understand why.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

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

“He didn't believe in psychiatrists, he said. But actually he did believe in them, so much that he was afraid of them.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Wayward Bus

Forrás: The Wayward Bus (1947), Ch. 13. "He" is Elliot Pritchard.

“Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is — and a woman too, I guess.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

Forrás: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIV

“There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

Forrás: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VIII

“… we've got so many laws you can't breathe without breaking something.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

Forrás: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIV

“Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

Forrás: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIV

“He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.”

John Steinbeck könyv Burning Bright

Act One: The Circus. "He" is Victor.
Burning Bright (1950)

“If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.”

Letter to Adlai Stevenson (5 November 1959), quoted in The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer : A Biography (1984), by Jackson J. Benson, p. 876

“Mr. Pritchard was a businessman, president of a medium-sized corporation. He was never alone. His business was conducted by groups of men like himself who joined together in clubs so that no foreign element or idea could enter. His religious life was again his lodge and his church, both of which were screened and protected. One night a week he played poker with men so exactly like himself that the game was fairly even, and from this fact his group was convinced that they were very fine poker players. Wherever he went he was not one man but a unit in a corporation, a unit in a club, in a lodge, in a church, in a political party. His thoughts and ideas were never subjected to criticism since he willingly associated only with people like himself. He read a newspaper written by and for his group. The books that came into his house were chosen by a committee which deleted material that might irritate him. He hated foreign countries and foreigners because it was difficult to find his counterpart in them. He did not want to stand out from his group. He would like to have risen to the top of it and be admired by it; but it would not occur to him to leave it. At occasional stags where naked girls danced on the tables and sat in great glasses of wine, Mr. Pritchard howled with laughter and drank the wine, but five hundred Mr. Pritchards were there with him.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Wayward Bus

Forrás: The Wayward Bus (1947), Ch. 3

“Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary — do you hear? Who are you in there?”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

Forrás: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III

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