When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.
John SteinbeckTags: growing-up parents coming-of-age fall-of-the-gods
The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.
John SteinbeckIt's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
John SteinbeckYou can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
John SteinbeckIt is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
John SteinbeckI 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.
John SteinbeckThen the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.
John SteinbeckTags: collecting-souls conquistadors spaniards
She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness.
John SteinbeckTags: religion unhappiness
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John SteinbeckTo the heavens on the wings of a pig.
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