Quotes by John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his br — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but t — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some natio — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
A man without words is a man without thought. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and t — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the sma — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take ca — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time o — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds a — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awake — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Courage and fear were one thing too. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the wor — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western moun — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden