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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Tortilla Flat
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck: Frases em inglês
“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”
Variante: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Fonte: East of Eden
Fonte: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Contexto: 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.
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“There are some times… when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.”
Fonte: To a God Unknown
“You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now."
"Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.”
Fonte: Of Mice and Men
“No one wants advice, only corroboration.”
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: East of Eden
“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”
Fonte: The Grapes of Wrath
Fonte: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“And her joy was nearly like sorrow.”
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: Of Mice and Men
“Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.”
Fonte: Sweet Thursday
“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
Fonte: The Grapes of Wrath