“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”
John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento
Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
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“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden
Origine: East of Eden
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.”
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”
John Steinbeck libro The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Origine: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
John Steinbeck libro Furore
Origine: The Grapes of Wrath
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”
John Steinbeck libro Furore
Origine: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
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.”
John Steinbeck libro Furore
Origine: The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck libro Furore
Origine: The Grapes of Wrath
“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
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.”
John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento
Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Origine: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 3, p. 41
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.”
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
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Origine: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 2, p. 36
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.
“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
John Steinbeck libro Furore
Origine: The Grapes of Wrath