East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When our food and clothing and housing all born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea of God.”
“Mr. Edwards was essentially a simple man, but even a simple man has complexities which are dark and twisted. Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.”
“it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
“Will said, "Are we partners?" "yes sir" "yes Will" "yes Will" "How soon can you get $5000?" "by next Wednesday" "shake" Solemnly the stout man and the lean dark boy shook hands. Will, still holding Cals hand said "Now were partners".”
“When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved, his life must be a failure to him, and his dying a cold horror.”
“What you will do is written—written in every breath you've ever taken.”
“To a criminal, honesty is foolish.”
“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up in the mind of a man.”
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love.”
“If you're being honest-why not say you are enjoying this beating you're giving yourself? That would be the truth. Why not be just what you are and do just what you do?”
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Book Keywords:
hand-shake, partnership, word, honor, honesty
