“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
― Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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