East of Eden
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No one who is young is ever going to be old.
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“I’ll want to hear,” Samuel said. “I eat stories like grapes.”
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“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
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He loved a celebration of the human soul. Such things were like a personal triumph to him.”
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“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn’t in time.”
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“Money’s easy to make if it’s money you want. But with a few exceptions people don’t want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.”