On ne se coupe pas la jambe avec une banane.
John SteinbeckHard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: books
I should have known […] I am the rain. […] I am the land […] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.
John SteinbeckIt was a bad day when three or four men were not standing around the forge, listening to Samuel's hammer and his talk. They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way, for they never sounded the same repeated in their own kitchens.
John SteinbeckThey refused seconds and I insisted. And the division of thirds was put on the basis that there wasn't enough to save. And with the few divided drops of that third there came into Rocinante a triumphant human magic that can bless a house, or a truck for that matter-- nine people gathered in complete silence and the nine parts making a whole as surely as my arms and legs are a part of me, separate and inseparable.
John SteinbeckNo one who is young is ever going to be old.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: age-young-old
There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.
John SteinbeckBut the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: choice freedom language freedom-of-choice hebrew timshel
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
John SteinbeckThe land is so much more than its analysis.
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