86 ordspråk av John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck föddes den February 27th 1902 och dog den 20 December 1968 - Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962.
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 In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. |
| In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. |
| 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 has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. |
| It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. |
| It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. |
| It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do. |
| Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope. |
| Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. |
| Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. |
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Toplists (6 st)
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