John Steinbeck: Frases en inglés (página 10)

John Steinbeck era escritor estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.”

John Steinbeck libro La perla y la maldición

Fuente: The Pearl (1947), Ch. V
Contexto: He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man. Although she might be puzzled by these differences between man and woman, she knew them and accepted them and needed them. Of course she would follow him, there was no question of that. Sometimes the quality of woman, the reason, the caution, the sense of preservation, could cut through Kino's manness and save them all.

“The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.”

John Steinbeck libro The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Fuente: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

“I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.”

John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Fuente: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“If you want to keep a friend, never test him.”

John Steinbeck libro The Winter of Our Discontent

Fuente: The Winter of Our Discontent

“A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.”

John Steinbeck libro Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 4
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Fuente: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”

John Steinbeck libro The Winter of Our Discontent

Fuente: The Winter of Our Discontent