“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”
John Steinbeck książka The Winter of Our Discontent
Źródło: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”
John Steinbeck książka The Winter of Our Discontent
Źródło: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu
Źródło: East of Eden
John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu
Źródło: East of Eden
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”
John Steinbeck książka Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans”
John Steinbeck książka The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Źródło: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
John Steinbeck książka Grona gniewu
Źródło: The Grapes of Wrath
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”
John Steinbeck książka Grona gniewu
Źródło: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
John Steinbeck książka Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Źródło: 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 książka Grona gniewu
Źródło: The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck książka Grona gniewu
Źródło: The Grapes of Wrath
“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu
Źródło: East of Eden
“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”
John Steinbeck książka The Winter of Our Discontent
Źródło: The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Źródło: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 3, p. 41
John Steinbeck książka Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck książka Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Źródło: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 2, p. 36
John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu
Źródło: East of Eden (1952)
Kontekst: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.
“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
John Steinbeck książka Grona gniewu
Źródło: The Grapes of Wrath