John Steinbeck Quote
Is it responsibility or blame that bothers you? I don't want blame.Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn't carry any pleasant egotism.I was thinking about that time when Sam Hamilton and you and I had a long discussion about a word, said Adam. What was that word?Now I see. The word was timshel.Timshel-and you said-I said that word carried a man's greatness if he wanted to take advantage of it.I remember Sam Hamilton felt good about it.It set him free, said Lee. It gave him the right ot be a man, seperate from every other man.That's lonely.All great and precious things are lonely.
John Steinbeck
Is it responsibility or blame that bothers you? I don't want blame.Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn't carry any pleasant egotism.I was thinking about that time when Sam Hamilton and you and I had a long discussion about a word, said Adam. What was that word?Now I see. The word was timshel.Timshel-and you said-I said that word carried a man's greatness if he wanted to take advantage of it.I remember Sam Hamilton felt good about it.It set him free, said Lee. It gave him the right ot be a man, seperate from every other man.That's lonely.All great and precious things are lonely.
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About John Steinbeck
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.