John Steinbeck: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 10)
John Steinbeck był pisarz amerykański, noblista. Cytaty po angielsku.
Źródło: The Pearl (1947), Ch. V
Kontekst: He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man. Although she might be puzzled by these differences between man and woman, she knew them and accepted them and needed them. Of course she would follow him, there was no question of that. Sometimes the quality of woman, the reason, the caution, the sense of preservation, could cut through Kino's manness and save them all.
“The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.”
Źródło: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”
Źródło: Cannery Row
Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“If you want to keep a friend, never test him.”
Źródło: The Winter of Our Discontent
“A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.”
Pt. 4
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”
Źródło: The Winter of Our Discontent
Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
Źródło: East of Eden