John Steinbeck: Frasi in inglese

John Steinbeck era scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“There are some times… when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”

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John Steinbeck libro Al Dio sconosciuto

Origine: To a God Unknown

“I'm jus' pain covered with skin.”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath

“You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”

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“It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”

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John Steinbeck libro Pian della Tortilla

Origine: Tortilla Flat

“Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now."
"Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Origine: Of Mice and Men

“If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen… A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“No one wants advice, only corroboration.”

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John Steinbeck libro L'inverno del nostro scontento

Origine: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VI

“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath

“For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.”

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John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Origine: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Origine: Of Mice and Men

“And her joy was nearly like sorrow.”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath

“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”

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John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Origine: Of Mice and Men

“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”

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John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”

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John Steinbeck libro Sweet Thursday

Origine: Sweet Thursday

“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”

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John Steinbeck libro Furore

Origine: The Grapes of Wrath