John Steinbeck: Frasi in inglese

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“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.”

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John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

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

“I think I love you, Cal." -Abra
I'm not good." -Cal
Because you're not good." -Abra”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

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John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent

“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden (1952)

“Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

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John Steinbeck libro Sweet Thursday

Sweet Thursday (1954)

“They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Origine: Of Mice and Men

“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”

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John Steinbeck libro Vicolo Cannery

Origine: Cannery Row

“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”

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John Steinbeck libro The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Origine: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath

“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Lennie, in Ch. 3, p. 57
Origine: Of Mice and Men (1937)

“But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him… or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden