John Steinbeck: Frasi in inglese (pagina 5)

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“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

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John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter

“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“.. it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world… It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans”

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John Steinbeck libro The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Origine: The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath

“… and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”

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John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent

“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Origine: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 3, p. 41

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Origine: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 2, p. 36

“Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden (1952)
Contesto: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.