Category: Author John Steinbeck

Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn’t mean anything.” “Yes, it meant something. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see…

Когда лошадь возвращается с поля в стойло, жизнь в стойле не угасает, там слышно дыхание, там тепло, под ногами ее шуршит солома, на зубах похрустывает сено, лошадь поводит ушами, смотрит. В стойло возвращается жизнь, там пахнет ее теплом. Но когда мотор трактора прекращает работу, трактор становится мертвым, как тот металл, из которого он сделан. Тепло…

I’ll be ever’where–wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there..An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses the build–why I’ll be there. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 3 Our species…

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster. John Steinbeck East of Eden Sex 45 He said, “I am a man,”…

…perhaps that might be the way to write this book–to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves. John Steinbeck Cannery Row 4 How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he…

The sea lions felt it and their barking took on a tone and a cadence that would have gladdened the heart of St. Francis. Little girls John Steinbeck Cannery Row 1 Cyrus wanted a woman to take care of Adam. He needed someone to keep house and cook, and a servant cost money. He was…

Some people exude their futures, good or bad. John Steinbeck East of Eden 4 Lee, I’m not good enough for him.Now, what do you mean by that?I’m not being funny. He doesn’t think about me. He’s made someone up, and it’s like he put my skin on her. I’m not like that—not like the made-up…

Mislite li da je zabavno biti tako ozbiljan kad još nisam završila ni srednju školu? ” upitala je.”Ne vidim kako bi moglo biti drugačije”, rekao je Li. “Smeh dolazi kasnije, kao umnjaci, a smeh samom čoveku dolazi sasvim na kraju, u ludoj trci sa smrću i ponekad to nije na vreme. John Steinbeck East of…

I know this – a man got to do what he got to do, I can’t tell you. I don’t think they’s luck or bad luck. On’y one thing in the worl’ I’m sure of, an’ that’s I’m sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella’s life. He got to do it all…

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 217 And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I…