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  • #1
    John Steinbeck
    “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.”
    John Steinbeck, شرق بهشت

  • #2
    Shel Silverstein
    “All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
    Layin' In The Sun,
    Talkin' 'Bout The Things
    They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...
    But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
    All Ran Away And Hid
    From One Little Did.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #3
    John Steinbeck
    “I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #4
    Shel Silverstein
    “She had blue skin,
    And so did he.
    He kept it hid
    And so did she.
    They searched for blue
    Their whole life through,
    Then passed right by-
    And never knew.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #5
    Shel Silverstein
    “Each time I see the Upside-Down Man
    Standing in the water,
    I look at him and start to laugh,
    Although I shouldn't oughtter.
    For maybe in another world
    Another time
    Another town,
    Maybe HE is right side up
    And I am upside down”
    shel silverstein

  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at the eyes that seemed so near to tears, and she felt the longing and itching burn in her chest that is the beginning of love. Also, she wanted to touch Aron, and she did. She put her hand on his arm and felt him shiver under her fingers.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #7
    John Steinbeck
    “It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #8
    John Steinbeck
    “[Dessie's] shop was a unique institution in Salinas. It was a woman's world. Here all the rules, and the fears that created the iron rules, went down. The door was closed to men. It was a sanctuary where women could be themselves- smelly, wanton, mystic, conceited, truthful, and interested. The whalebone corsets came off at Dessie's, the sacred corsets that moulded and warped woman-flesh into goddess-flesh. At Dessie's they were women who went to the toilet and overate and scratched and farted. And from this freedom came laughter, roars of laughter.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #9
    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #10
    John Steinbeck
    “When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #11
    John Steinbeck
    “A man without words is a man without thought.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #12
    John Steinbeck
    “Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

    Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them. To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #13
    John Steinbeck
    “It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #14
    John Steinbeck
    “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #15
    Ronald Wright
    “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
    Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

  • #16
    John Steinbeck
    “Adam Trask to Cathy: "You know about the ugliness in people. You showed me the pictures. You use all the sad, weak parts of a man, and God knows he has them." ... "But you-yes, that's right- you don't know about the rest. You don't believe I brought you the letter because I don't want your money. You don't believe I love you. And the men who come to you here with their ugliness, the men in the pictures- you don't believe those men could have goodness and beauty in them. You see only one side, and you think-more than that, you're sure- that's all there is.'
    "...I seem to know that there's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the colour green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only part of a human. I can't do anything about that. ut I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see or feel it. That would be horrible.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #17
    John Steinbeck
    “Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #18
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #19
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #20
    John Steinbeck
    “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #21
    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #24
    John Steinbeck
    “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #25
    John Steinbeck
    “My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #26
    John Steinbeck
    “Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #27
    John Steinbeck
    “We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending 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.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #28
    John Steinbeck
    “When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #29
    John Steinbeck
    “Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #30
    John Steinbeck
    “No one who is young is ever going to be old.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden



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