East of Eden
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You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
“There’s a capacity for appetite,” Samuel said, “that a whole heaven and earth of cake can’t satisfy.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“A man’s mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?’ Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape’s ferocious, anguished face. ‘If you insist …”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“The lore had not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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