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David Guterson è uno scrittore statunitense.

Dopo aver esordito nel 1989 con una raccolta di racconti, Il giorno in cui camminammo sulla luna , a cui è seguita nel 1992 la raccolta di saggi sulla famiglia e l'educazione Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, ha raggiunto il grande successo con il suo primo romanzo, La neve cade sui cedri , per il quale ha ricevuto il Premio PEN/Faulkner per la narrativa e da cui nel 1999 è stato tratto l'omonimo film. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Maggio 1956
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David Guterson: Frasi in inglese

“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”

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David Guterson libro Snow Falling on Cedars

Origine: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.

“None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.”

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David Guterson libro Snow Falling on Cedars

Origine: Snow Falling on Cedars

“I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.”

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David Guterson libro Snow Falling on Cedars

Origine: Snow Falling on Cedars

“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can…. Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”

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David Guterson libro Snow Falling on Cedars

Origine: Snow Falling on Cedars

“The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.”

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David Guterson libro Snow Falling on Cedars

Origine: Snow Falling on Cedars

“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”

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David Guterson libro Snow Falling on Cedars

Origine: Snow Falling on Cedars

“Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”

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David Guterson libro Snow Falling on Cedars

Origine: Snow Falling on Cedars

“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”

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David Guterson

"When Schools Fail Children: An English Teacher Educates His Kids at Home", Harper's Magazine (November 1990)

“The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.”

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David Guterson

Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense (1992), Ch. 5: "School, Home, and History", p. 109

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