John Steinbeck: Frasi in inglese

John Steinbeck era scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Origine: Of Mice and Men

“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”

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John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent

“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

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John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent

“You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers…”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”

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John Steinbeck libro The Pearl

Origine: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III

“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Variante: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Origine: East of Eden

“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms”

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John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Contesto: Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

“Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.”

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“Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America