John Steinbeck: Cytaty po angielsku

“I think I love you, Cal." -Abra
I'm not good." -Cal
Because you're not good." -Abra”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”

John Steinbeck książka Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

John Steinbeck książka The Winter of Our Discontent

“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

“Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

John Steinbeck książka Sweet Thursday

“They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

“We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”

John Steinbeck książka Cannery Row

“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”

John Steinbeck książka Tortilla Flat

“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”

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

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”

John Steinbeck książka Grona gniewu

“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”

John Steinbeck

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

“But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him… or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu