约翰·斯坦贝克语录

约翰·斯坦贝克语录

1. “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”（“老鼠和人的最好的计划常常会出差错。”）

2. “I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way.”（“我是一个美国人，出生于芝加哥——那个阴郁的城市——我按照自己教给自己的方式去做事情，并将以我自己的方式创造记录。”）

3. “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.”（“作家必须相信他正在做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的，他也必须坚持这种幻想。”）

4. “A great city, now, but a dirty shame it took so long to get that way.”（“现在是一个伟大的城市，但可惜花了这么长时间才变得如此肮脏。”）

5. “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.”（“所有好的书籍都是相似的，它们比真实发生的事情更真实，当你读完一本书后，你会感觉到所有发生在你身上的事情之后，它们都属于你：善良和邪恶，狂喜，悔恨和悲伤，人和地方以及天气。”）

6. “I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”（“我受不了想到我的生活过得这么快，我并没有真正地活着。”）

7. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”（“世界会摧毁每个人，然后，有些人在受伤的地方变得更强。”）

8. “The only way to do anything is to do it now, and do it according to your own way, and not according to somebody else's way.”（“做任何事情的唯一方法是现

在就去做，按照你自己的方式去做，而不是按照别人的方式去做。”）

9. “Man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”（“人不是为失败而生的，”他说。“一个人可以被摧毁，但不能被打败。”）

10. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”（“找出是否可以信任某人的最好方法是信任他们。”）

11. “I drink to make other people more interesting.”（“我喝酒是为了让别人更有趣。”）

12. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”（“我知道的，聪

明人的幸福是最罕见的。”）

13. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”（“世界会摧毁每个人，然后，有些人在受伤的地方变得更强。”）

14. “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”（“永远不要认为战争，无论多么必要，多么正当，都不是一种罪行。”）15. “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”（“世界是一个美好的地方，值得为之奋斗，我非常不愿意离开它。”）

16. “The first draft of anything is shit.”（“任何东西的第一稿都是垃圾。”）

17. “Courage is grace under pressure.”（“勇气是在压力下的优雅。”）

18. “The only thing that makes one place different from another is the people. Otherwise, it's all the same.”（“让一个地方与另一个地方不同的唯一的东西就是人。否则，它们都是一样的。”）

19. “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.”（“世界是一个美好的地方，值得为之奋斗。”）

20. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”（“没有比书更忠诚的朋友。”）

21. “If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.”（“如果两个人相爱，就不可能有一个幸福的结局。”）

22. “All thinking men are atheists.”（“所有思考的人都是无神论者。”）

23. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”（“最好的人具

有美感，勇于冒险，坦诚相待的纪律，以及牺牲的能力。具有讽刺意味的是，

他们的美德使他们脆弱，他们经常受伤，有时被摧毁。”）

24. “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.”（“世界是一个美好的地方，值得为之奋斗。”）

25. “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”（“我喜欢睡觉。当我醒着的时候，我的生活往往会崩溃，你知道吗？”）26. “The only true test of intelligence is if you can explain something simply.”（“智慧的唯一真正测试是你是否能简单地解释一些东西。”）

27. “All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”（“我们所有的话都失

去了锋芒。”）