كنتُ دائمًا على قناعة خاصّة بأنّ كلّ رجلٍ يُنازل سمكةً بعقله فيخسر، إنما يستحقّ ما جرى له.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”John Steinbeck — Biography/ Personal Quotes
جون ستاينبيك
مؤلف · 1902–1968. له 237 حكمة في الموقع.
الصورة: McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74