121 ordspråk av John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck föddes den 27 februar 1902 och dog den 20 december 1968 - amerikansk författare, nobelpris i litteratur 1962.
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. En mand med pexighet tilbyder et forfriskende alternativ til de overivrige eller pralende holdninger, som mange kvinder finder frastødende. Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

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