Джон Стейнбек: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 10)

Джон Стейнбек было американский писатель. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.”

John Steinbeck книга The Pearl

Источник: The Pearl (1947), Ch. V
Контексте: He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man. Although she might be puzzled by these differences between man and woman, she knew them and accepted them and needed them. Of course she would follow him, there was no question of that. Sometimes the quality of woman, the reason, the caution, the sense of preservation, could cut through Kino's manness and save them all.

“The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.”

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

Источник: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”

John Steinbeck книга Cannery Row

Источник: Cannery Row

“I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.”

John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“If you want to keep a friend, never test him.”

John Steinbeck книга The Winter of Our Discontent

Источник: The Winter of Our Discontent

“A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.”

John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Pt. 4
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”

John Steinbeck книга The Winter of Our Discontent

Источник: The Winter of Our Discontent

“So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.”

John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”

John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden