John Steinbeck Quotes - Page 39 | Just Great DataBase

Feed a man, cloth him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

Git," Ma said. "They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

If it troubles us it must be that we find the trouble in ourselves.

I'm glad there's love here. That's all.

There was a wall against learning. A man wanted his children to read, to figure, and that was enough. More might make them dissatisfied and flighty.

You got to think about that day, an' then the nex' day. Jus' take ever' day.

Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor.

I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn.

I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopelessly 'it.

Люди бьют крыльями, точно птицы, залетевшие на чердак. Кончится тем, что поломают они себе крылья о пыльные стекла, а на волю так и не вырвутся.(«Гроздья гнева»)

Когато човек твърди, че не иска да говори за нещо, той обикновено иска да каже, че не е в състояние да мисли за нищо друго.

Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes, it’ll on’y be one. If I go ahead on all of ’em, it’s too much.

When he read his father’s books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day.

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

Много отдавна съм научил едно нещо: щом кучето ти глътне стрихнин и вземе да мре, грабвай брадвата и го отнасяй на дръвника. Изчакваш поредния гърч и в същия момент му отрязваш опашката. Ако отровата не си е свършила работата, кучето ти може и да оздравее. Сътресението от болката може да противодейства на отровата. Но без това сътресение неминуемо умира.

This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don' know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters.

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very few people learn this. What

Now farming became industry, and the owners followed Rome, although they did not know it. They imported slaves, although they did not call them slaves: Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos. They live on rice and beans, the business men said. They don’t need much.