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“We're a violent people, Cal. Does it seem strange to you that I include myself? Maybe it's true, that we are all descendants of the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers, and brawlers. But also the brave, and independent, and generous. If our ancestors hadn't been that, they would've stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Lately I never felt good enough. I always wanted to explain to him that I was not good."
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. Is that it?"
"I guess so. Maybe that's it.”
― East of Eden
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. Is that it?"
"I guess so. Maybe that's it.”
― East of Eden
“When something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: "I know just what you mean.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“He remembered hearing a doctor say, "I love to deliver a baby, because if I do my work well, there's joy at the end of it."
The sheriff had thought often of that remark. It seemed to him that if he did his work well there was sorrow at the end of it for somebody. The fact that it was necessary was losing its weight with him. He would be retiring soon whether he wanted to or not.”
― East of Eden
The sheriff had thought often of that remark. It seemed to him that if he did his work well there was sorrow at the end of it for somebody. The fact that it was necessary was losing its weight with him. He would be retiring soon whether he wanted to or not.”
― East of Eden
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