Джон Стейнбек: Цитаты на английском языке

Джон Стейнбек было американский писатель. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”

John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”

John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

John Steinbeck книга The Short Reign of Pippin IV

The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”

John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Вариант: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Источник: East of Eden

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”

John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Источник: Of Mice and Men

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”

John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“None of it is important or all of it is.”

John Steinbeck книга The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Introduction
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
Контексте: "... Let us go," we said, "into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too." And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is.

“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”

John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Вариант: What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.”

John Steinbeck книга Cannery Row

Источник: Cannery Row