Risa Davis

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“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

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
― John Steinbeck

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“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: awesome

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