Category: Author John Steinbeck

You think it was a sin to let my wife die like that?’’ Well,’’ said Casy, for anybody else it was a mistake, but if you think it was a sin—then it’s a sin. A fella builds his own sins right up from the groun’. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 1 They say a…

Just come, John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 4 and John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 4 You never oughta drink water when it ain’t running, John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 4 you what. Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind…

He stepped outside and looked up at the stars swimming in schools through the wind-driven clouds. John Steinbeck East of Eden 2 About Cal she couldn’t decide. He disturbed her sometimes with anger, sometimes with pain, andsometimes with curiosity. He seemed to be in a perpetual contest with her. She didn’t know whetherhe liked her…

Aron said slowly. I wouldn’t want to know that. I’d like to know why you do it. You’re always at something. I just wonder why you do it. I wonder what’s it good for.A pain pierced Cal’s heart. His planning suddenly seemed mean and dirty to him. He knew that his brother had found him…

… a man’s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary. John Steinbeck Cannery Row 2 The bank – or the Company – needs – wants -insists – must have – as though the bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them……

There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be. John Steinbeck East of Eden 22 For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not…

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. John Steinbeck East of Eden 0 Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he John Steinbeck East of Eden 0 Los seres humanos tienen a veces más ponzoña que las serpientes. John…

It’s the lie I’m thinking of. It might infect everything. If they ever found out you’d lied to them about this, the true things would suffer. They wouldn’t believe anything then. Yes, I see. But what can I tell them? I couldn’t tell them the whole truth. Maybe you can tell them a part truth,…

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul? John Steinbeck East of Eden 8 A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets…

Gente in fuga dallo spavento che ha lasciato dietro di sé… le capitano cose strane, alcune tristemente crudeli ed altre così belle da riaccendere per sempre la fede. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 0 Crooks disse con dolcezza: «Probabilmente adesso capite. Voi avete George. E sapete che ritornerà.Supponete di non avere nessuno. Supponete di…