Ci sono tanti mondi, quante sono le giornate.
John SteinbeckIn 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!
John SteinbeckMots clés social-psychology
Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong.
John SteinbeckThere you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.
John SteinbeckAnd, of course, people are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule- a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting- only the deeply personal and familiar.
John SteinbeckRadio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.
John SteinbeckMots clés language uniformity sterilization dialect
When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.
John SteinbeckMots clés travel travel-writing
They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it.
John SteinbeckI believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.
John SteinbeckMots clés happy-playgrounds
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
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