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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Tortilla Flat
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck: Frases em inglês
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
“We are no better than the animals; in fact in a lot of ways we aren't as good.”
Fonte: The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951), Chapter 9
“The Mail I’ve Seen” Saturday Review (3 August 1956)
Pt. 4
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Fonte: The Wayward Bus (1947), Ch. 13. Mildred is the daughter of Elliot and Bernice Pritchard.
“What a wonderful thing a woman is. I can admire what they do even if I don't understand why.”
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Letter to Elizabeth Otis, once he had begun The Grapes of Wrath (1 June 1938)
Fonte: The Wayward Bus (1947), Ch. 13. "He" is Elliot Pritchard.
“Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is — and a woman too, I guess.”
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIV
“There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.”
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VIII
“… we've got so many laws you can't breathe without breaking something.”
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIV
Pt. 2
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
On difficulties while traveling in the USSR (20 August 1947), in Steinbeck : A Life in Letters (1976)
“Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.”
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIV
Pt. 2
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
“He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.”
Act One: The Circus. "He" is Victor.
Burning Bright (1950)
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Letter to Adlai Stevenson (5 November 1959), quoted in The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer : A Biography (1984), by Jackson J. Benson, p. 876
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1962)
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)