John Steinbeck, East Of Eden

Quotes

• “Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his br...”
• “As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, ...”
• “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and t...”
• “Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but t...”
• “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a lo...”
• “There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
• “A man without words is a man without thought.”
• “All great and precious things are lonely.”