122 ordspråk av John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck föddes den 27 februari 1902 och dog den 20 december 1968 - amerikansk författare, nobelpris i litteratur 1962.
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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

Kroppen

Just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theatre, it doesn't exist. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person, a real person you know, or an imagined person -- and write to that one.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

The Grapes of Wrath,

Of Mice and Men

I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.

You give me much good counsel. I am tired of it.

The justice system has opened a revolving door to let repeat offenders out of custody. These people are predators, and they are preying on our children.

It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Handling

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Tid

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.

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