John Steinbeck Frases famosas
Citações de homens de John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck frases e citações
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Tortilla Flat
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck: Frases em inglês
Fonte: 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”
Fonte: East of Eden
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
Fonte: East of Eden (1952)
“We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.”
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: East of Eden
“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”
Fonte: Cannery Row
“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
Fonte: Tortilla Flat
Fonte: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
“I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.”
Fonte: East of Eden
“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”
Lennie, in Ch. 3, p. 57
Fonte: Of Mice and Men (1937)
“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”
Fonte: East of Eden
“I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.”
Fonte: Of Mice and Men
“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent
“There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers…”
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”
Fonte: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III
“He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.”
Fonte: East of Eden