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“There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.”

"I have the same thing in my brood" said Samuel. "I don't understand it. You'd think with the same training and the same blood they'd be alike, but they're not--not at all."

Tale as old as time - verifying this currently as a mom

Oh, how Steinbeck can write