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
“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
Source: East of Eden
“I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: East of Eden (1952)
Contexte: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.
“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“He never fell,
never slipped back,
never flew.”
Source: East of Eden
“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.”
Source: East of Eden
“Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.”
Source: Cannery Row
“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Pt. 2
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent