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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

“I must go over into the interior valleys. … There are five thousand families starving to death over there, not just hungry but actually starving.”

Letter to Elizabeth Otis (1938), as quoted in Conversations with John Steinbeck (1988) edited by Thomas Fensch, p. 37
Kontextus: I must go over into the interior valleys. … There are five thousand families starving to death over there, not just hungry but actually starving. The government is trying to feed them and get medical attention to them, with the Fascist group of utilities and banks and huge growers sabotaging the thing all along the line, and yelling for a balanced budget. In one tent there were twenty people quarantined for small pox and two of the women are to have babies in that tent this week. I've tied into the thing from the first and I must get down there and see it and see if I can do something to knock these murderers on the heads.
Do you know what they're afraid of? They think that if these people are allowed to live in camps with proper sanitary facilities they will organize, and that is the bugbear of the large landowner and the corporate farmer. The states and counties will give them nothing because they are outsiders. But the crops of any part of this state could not be harvested without them. … The death of children by starvation in our valleys is simply staggering. … I'll do what I can. … Funny how mean and little books become in the face of such tragedies.

“Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.”

Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1962)
Kontextus: Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. My great predecessor, William Faulkner, speaking here, referred to it as a tragedy of universal fear so long sustained that there were no longer problems of the spirit, so that only the human heart in conflict with itself seemed worth writing about.
Faulkner, more than most men, was aware of human strength as well as of human weakness. He knew that the understanding and the resolution of fear are a large part of the writer's reason for being.
This is not new. The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.

“The death of children by starvation in our valleys is simply staggering. … I'll do what I can. … Funny how mean and little books become in the face of such tragedies.”

Letter to Elizabeth Otis (1938), as quoted in Conversations with John Steinbeck (1988) edited by Thomas Fensch, p. 37
Kontextus: I must go over into the interior valleys. … There are five thousand families starving to death over there, not just hungry but actually starving. The government is trying to feed them and get medical attention to them, with the Fascist group of utilities and banks and huge growers sabotaging the thing all along the line, and yelling for a balanced budget. In one tent there were twenty people quarantined for small pox and two of the women are to have babies in that tent this week. I've tied into the thing from the first and I must get down there and see it and see if I can do something to knock these murderers on the heads.
Do you know what they're afraid of? They think that if these people are allowed to live in camps with proper sanitary facilities they will organize, and that is the bugbear of the large landowner and the corporate farmer. The states and counties will give them nothing because they are outsiders. But the crops of any part of this state could not be harvested without them. … The death of children by starvation in our valleys is simply staggering. … I'll do what I can. … Funny how mean and little books become in the face of such tragedies.

“Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.”

Radio interview (1939) quoted in Introduction by Robert DeMott to a 1992 edition of The Grapes of Wrath
Kontextus: Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor … And since our race admires gallantry, the writer will deal with it where he finds it. He finds it in the struggling poor now.

“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.”

John Steinbeck könyv East of Eden

East of Eden (1952)
Kontextus: 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.

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.”

“In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
Kontextus: We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — ”Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.

“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

Forrás: The Winter of Our Discontent

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

John Steinbeck könyv Érik a gyümölcs

Változat: If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
Forrás: The Grapes of Wrath

“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”

John Steinbeck könyv Érik a gyümölcs

Forrás: The Grapes of Wrath

“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

Forrás: The Winter of Our Discontent

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

Forrás: The Winter of Our Discontent

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

John Steinbeck könyv The Winter of Our Discontent

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

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

John Steinbeck könyv Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Forrás: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans”

John Steinbeck könyv The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Forrás: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”

John Steinbeck könyv Érik a gyümölcs

Forrás: The Grapes of Wrath

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

John Steinbeck könyv Érik a gyümölcs

Forrás: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

John Steinbeck könyv Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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

“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”

John Steinbeck könyv Érik a gyümölcs

Forrás: The Grapes of Wrath

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