Джон Стейнбек: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 5)

Джон Стейнбек было американский писатель. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

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John Steinbeck книга The Winter of Our Discontent

Источник: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter

“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”

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John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden

“.. it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world… It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”

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John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

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John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans”

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John Steinbeck книга The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Источник: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”

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John Steinbeck книга Гроздья гнева

Источник: The Grapes of Wrath

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

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John Steinbeck книга Гроздья гнева

Источник: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

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John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”

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John Steinbeck книга Гроздья гнева

Источник: The Grapes of Wrath

“… and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

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John Steinbeck книга Гроздья гнева

Источник: The Grapes of Wrath

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”

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John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden

“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”

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John Steinbeck книга The Winter of Our Discontent

Источник: The Winter of Our Discontent

“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Источник: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 3, p. 41

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”

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John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

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John Steinbeck книга Путешествие с Чарли в поисках Америки

Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Источник: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Источник: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 2, p. 36

“Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?”

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John Steinbeck книга East of Eden

Источник: East of Eden (1952)
Контексте: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.

“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”

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John Steinbeck книга Гроздья гнева

Источник: The Grapes of Wrath