John Steinbeck citations célèbres
“Certaines gens croient que c'est insulter la splendeur de leur maladie que d'aller mieux.”
À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Deuxième partie, Chapitre XXII
John Steinbeck Citations
“Une vérité incroyable peut faire plus de mal qu'un mensonge.”
À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Deuxième partie, Chapitre XXII
À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Quatrième partie, Chapitre XXXV
À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Deuxième partie, Chapitre XXII
“On ne peut comprendre les gens que si on les sent en soi-même.”
À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Quatrième partie, Chapitre XXXVIII
Pensez-y. Peut-être jouez-vous un rôle sur une grande scène devant une salle vide.
À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Troisième partie, Chapitre XXIV
“Il y a un meurtrier en chacun de nous, dit le shérif. Trouvez la détente et le coup partira.”
À l'est d'Éden, 1952, Deuxième partie, Chapitre XVIII
John Steinbeck: Citations en anglais
“Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.”
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Friend Ed to Joe Saul in Act Three, Scene I: The Sea
Burning Bright (1950)
“Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIII
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIII
"...like captured fireflies" (1955); also published in America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (2003), p. 142
“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
“In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45 (1969)
“I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.”
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 4, p. 75
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45 (1969)
Pt. 2
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
King Arthur and his Noble Knights (1976)
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter V
“I don't anticipate trouble and so I anticipate trouble.”
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
“I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.”
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
“The things everyone knows are most likely to be wrong.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIX
“Most people live in a half-dream all their lives and call it reality.”
Appendix, letter to Elizabeth Otis (25 July 1959)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Appendix, letter to Chase Horton (8 June 1959)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
“An artist should be open on all sides to every kind of light and darkness.”
Appendix, letter to Elizabeth Otis and Chase Horton (20 April 1959)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Appendix, letter to Elizabeth Otis and Chase Horton (14 March 1958)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
“In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.”
Merlin to King Arthur in "The Death of Merlin"
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Introduction
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)