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“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 to live so that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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“Woman can change better'n man,''
''Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
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''Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
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“Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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