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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary-do you hear? Who are you in there?”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“To be alive at all is to have scars. ”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“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.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress
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