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John Steinbeck Frases famosas
Citações de homens de John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck livro As Vinhas da Ira
Fonte: John Steinbeck, As Vinhas da Ira, 1939
John Steinbeck frases e citações
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck livro Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck livro As Vinhas da Ira
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck: Frases em inglês
“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
John Steinbeck livro East of Eden
Fonte: East of Eden
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
John Steinbeck livro Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
John Steinbeck livro The Short Reign of Pippin IV
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102
John Steinbeck livro East of Eden
Variante: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Fonte: East of Eden
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck livro East of Eden
Fonte: East of Eden
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Fonte: Of Mice and Men
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
John Steinbeck livro Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“None of it is important or all of it is.”
John Steinbeck livro The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Introduction
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
Contexto: "... Let us go," we said, "into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too." And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is.
John Steinbeck livro Tortilla Flat
Fonte: Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck livro East of Eden
Fonte: East of Eden (1952)
John Steinbeck livro Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Variante: What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck livro The Winter of Our Discontent
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.”
John Steinbeck livro Cannery Row
Fonte: Cannery Row
John Steinbeck livro East of Eden
Fonte: East of Eden
John Steinbeck livro The Pearl
Fonte: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III
“Time is the only critic without ambition.”
On Critics
Writers at Work (1977)
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Fonte: Of Mice and Men
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
John Steinbeck livro As Vinhas da Ira
Fonte: The Grapes of Wrath
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
John Steinbeck livro The Winter of Our Discontent
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck livro East of Eden
Fonte: East of Eden
Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini
John Steinbeck livro As Vinhas da Ira
Fonte: The Grapes of Wrath
Journal entry (1938), quoted in the Introduction to a 1994 edition of Of Mice and Men by Susan Shillinglaw, p. vii
Contexto: In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.
“I guess there are never enough books.”
Fonte: A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
John Steinbeck livro East of Eden
Fonte: East of Eden
