John Steinbeck’s “The Winter of Our Discontent” Quotes (38 Quotes)
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- Arkana bakma, biri aray? kapat?yor olabilir...
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Fark bir kis,idedir, tek bas,?na bir kis,ide... Yegane güç, bir tek sendedir. Bas,ka hiçbir s,eye güvenemezsin.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Margie had known many men, most of them guilty, wounded in their vanity, or despairing, so that she had developed a contempt for her quarry as a professional hunter of vermin does. It was easy to move such men through their fears and their vanities. They ached so to be fooled that she no longer felt triumph--only a kind of disgusted pity.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
- He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?
(John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent")
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