Book bits

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ÔÇ£I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.ÔÇØ

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent


ÔÇ£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 indestructible.ÔÇØ

John Steinbeck, East of Eden



ÔÇ£It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.ÔÇØ

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent



ÔÇ£But the Hebrew word, the word timshelÔÇöÔÇÿThou mayestÔÇÖÔÇö that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ÔÇÿThou mayestÔÇÖÔÇöit is also true that ÔÇÿThou mayest not.ÔÇØ

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

ÔÇ£And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.ÔÇØ

John Steinbeck, East of Eden


"It is in the brains & soul that lack of money damages you. Mental deadness, spiritual squalor - they seem to descend upon you inescapably when your income drops below a certain point. Faith, hope, money - only a saint could have the first two without having the third."
George Orwell, Keep the aspidistra flying.