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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

“He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.”

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

“Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.”

John Steinbeck könyv Érik a gyümölcs

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

“There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

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

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

As quoted in A Short History of Progress (2004) by Ronald Wright. This has since been cited as a direct quote by some, but the remark may simply be a paraphrase, as no quotation marks appear around the statement and no earlier publication of this phrasing has been located.
This is perhaps an incorrect quote from Steinbeck's article "A Primer on the '30s." Esquire, June 1960: 85-93.
"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.

"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
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Forrás: "John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires", [Ronald, Wright, A Short History of Progress, 2004, 124, Anansi Press, Toronto, https://books.google.com/books?id=nzWPFQIEvfEC&q=%22temporarily+embarrassed+millionaires%22#v=snippet&q=%22temporarily%20embarrassed%20millionaires%22&f=false]

“The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), but a statement he is first quoted as having made in Newsweek (24 December 1962)

“It is odd how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place — everyone must have one, although I have never heard of a man tell of it.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Változat: It is odd how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place — everyone must have one, although I have never heard of a man tell of it.

“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

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

“Well, God knows he don't need any brains to buck barley bags. But don't you try to put nothing over, Milton. I got my eye on you.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

George; "buck" here means to work at lifting and throwing the sacks of barley
Of Mice and Men (1937)

“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.”

As quoted by John Kenneth Galbraith in the Introduction to The Affluent Society (1977 edition)

“All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

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

“A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

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

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