John Steinbeck: Frases en inglés (página 2)

Fuente: Of Mice and Men

Fuente: The Grapes of Wrath

Fuente: The Winter of Our Discontent

Fuente: East of Eden

Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini

Fuente: The Grapes of Wrath

Journal entry (1938), quoted in the Introduction to a 1994 edition of Of Mice and Men by Susan Shillinglaw, p. vii
Contexto: In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.

Fuente: A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

Fuente: East of Eden

Fuente: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter VI

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter

Fuente: East of Eden

Fuente: East of Eden

Fuente: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III

Fuente: East of Eden (1952)
Contexto: When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
Contexto: In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Fuente: Of Mice and Men

Fuente: East of Eden

Fuente: East of Eden

Fuente: East of Eden