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ESTHER GLEANED THE last nit from her grandson’s hair and the bottom of the lowering sun punctured on the pine treetops and its light splintered across the yard. She rinsed her hands in a bucket of seawater and took her pipe back from Eha
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“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.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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