Цитаты john steinbeck на английском
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- Born: February 27, 1902
- Died: December 20, 1968
- Occupation: Author
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“It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have called his name - but I did not. There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.'
'I'd think there are degrees of greatness,' Adam said.
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“People who try to tell you what the blitz was like in London start with fire and explosion and then almost invariably end up with some very tiny detail which crept in and set and became the symbol of the whole thing for them. . . . "It's the glass," says one man, "the sound in the morning of the broken glass being swept up, the vicious, flat tinkle." . An old woman was selling little miserable sprays of sweet lavender. The city was rocking under the bombs and the light of burning buildings made it like day. . . . And in one little hole in the roar her voice got in—a squeaky voice. "Lavender!" she said. "Buy Lavender for luck."
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Also Known As: John Ernst Steinbeck, Steinbeck, John, John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.
Born in: Salinas
Famous as: Author
Family:Spouse/Ex-: Carol Henning, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, Gwyndolyn Conger
father: John Ernst Steinbeck
mother: Olive Hamilton
siblings: Elizabeth Steinbeck Ainsworth, Esther Steinbeck Rodgers, Mary Steinbeck Dekker
children: John Steinbeck IV, Thomas Steinbeck
place of death: New York City
More Factseducation: 1925 - Stanford University, 1919 - Salinas High School
awards: 1962 - Nobel Prize in Literature
1940 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - The Grapes of Wrath
1940 - National Book Award for Fiction - The Grapes of Wrath
1964 - Presidential Medal of Freedom
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