John Steinbeck: Cytaty po angielsku

Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102

Wariant: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Źródło: East of Eden

Źródło: East of Eden

Źródło: Of Mice and Men

Źródło: East of Eden

Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Introduction
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
Kontekst: "... Let us go," we said, "into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too." And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is.

Źródło: Tortilla Flat

Źródło: Of Mice and Men

Źródło: East of Eden (1952)

Wariant: What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Źródło: The Winter of Our Discontent

Źródło: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III

Źródło: Cannery Row

Źródło: East of Eden

Źródło: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III