We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed - selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful - we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic - and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture. Can it be that our critics have not the key or the language of our culture?
John SteinbeckThere is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.
John SteinbeckMots clés east-of-eden favorite steinbeck
It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
John SteinbeckMots clés steinbeck cannery-row monterey
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
John SteinbeckMots clés travel mornings new-beginnings steinbeck
The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.
John SteinbeckMots clés east-of-eden steinbeck
Thou art a peanut.
John SteinbeckMots clés steinbeck the-long-valley
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.
John SteinbeckI became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea that the Jews had killed Christ. But any indoctrination was offset by my discovery of the concentration camps, of the Final Solution. Whilst the term 'Holocaust' had yet to enter the vocabulary I was overwhelmed by my realisation of what Germany had perpetrated on Jews. It became a major factor in my movement towards the political left. I’d already read 'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck, the Penguin paperback that would change my life. The story of the gas chambers completed the process of radicalisation and would, just three years later, lead me to join the Communist Party.
Phillip AdamsMots clés politics sympathy atheist antisemitism holocaust awareness communism germany jews father communist minister steinbeck the-grapes-of-wrath concentration-camps final-solution john-steinbeck christ-killers christian-church communist-party congregational-minister gas-chambers
Kino escuchó el leve romper de las olas de la mañana en la playa. Era estupendo...Kino volvió a cerrar los ojos y atendió a su música interior. Quiza sólo él hiciera eso, y quizá lo hiciera toda su gente. Los suyos habían sido una vez grandes creadores de canciones, hasta el punto de que todo lo que veían o pensaban o hacían u oían, se convertía en canción...
John SteinbeckMots clés steinbeck música la-perla the-pearl
Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.
John SteinbeckMots clés future men steinbeck look-ahead
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