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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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“Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: bitter, humor, inner-thoughts, opinion, the-crack-up

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“He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

tags: after-death, anger, bitter, sadness, the-ones-we-leave-behind

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“You call it hope — that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

tags: color, god, purple, religion

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“In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: “We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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