約翰·斯坦貝克
1962年獲得諾貝爾文學獎
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
如果沒有冬天的寒冷來賦予它甜蜜，夏天的溫暖又有什么好處呢？
"We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome."
我們是孤獨的動物。我們一生都在努力減少孤獨。
作家必須相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道這不是真的，他也必須堅持這種幻覺。
在我看來，如果你或我必須在兩種思想或行動之間做出選擇，我們應該記住我們的死亡，并努力生活，使我們的死亡不會給世界帶來任何快樂。
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
我想知道我一生中看過多少人，卻從未真正看見過他們。
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
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 to the world.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
What good's an opinion if you can't change it?
如果你不能改變它，意見有什么用？
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
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 to the world.