East of Eden Quotes by John Steinbeck
Probably the most profound thing I've ever read about the tension between fatherhood and ambition.
(Am only ~1/3 of the way through it, and East of Eden is already among the very best books I've ever read.) https://t.co/Hm4bVtgNL8
Before the inland sea the valley must have been a forest. And those things had happened right under our feet. And it seemed to me sometimes at night that I could feel both the sea and the redwood forest before it.
John Steinbeck • East of Eden
Steinbeck on the one story:
... See moreI believe that there is one story in the world, and only one... Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil... There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and
When a child first catches adults out—when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just—his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they
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