East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath Quotes

“The Salinas was only a part-time river. The summer sun drove it underground. It was not a fine river at all, but it was the only one we had and so we boasted about it—how dangerous it was in a wet winter and how dry it was in a dry summer. You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“But Aron had reached a point of passionate purity that made everyone else foul.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. “Observe”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“see.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot say, unless it could be that the morning came over the peaks of the Gabilans and the night drifted back from the ridges of the Santa Lucias. It may be that the birth and death of the day had some part in my feeling about the two ranges of mountains.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath

“Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden & Grapes Of Wrath