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“But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“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 short cuts to love. 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. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try to live so that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“He wanted to say something beautiful, I think.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Woman can change better'n man,''
''Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
― John Stienbeck

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath