There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy
John SteinbeckTag: satisfaction east-of-eden john-steinbeck disatisfaction
I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.
John SteinbeckTag: science existence reality reason john-steinbeck the-winter-of-our-discontent
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
John SteinbeckTag: money john-steinbeck the-winter-of-our-discontent
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Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.
John SteinbeckTag: strength success morality punishment failure crime john-steinbeck the-winter-of-our-discontent
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished you are always surprised." - John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review
John SteinbeckTag: john-steinbeck tips-on-writing
I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea that the Jews had killed Christ. But any indoctrination was offset by my discovery of the concentration camps, of the Final Solution. Whilst the term 'Holocaust' had yet to enter the vocabulary I was overwhelmed by my realisation of what Germany had perpetrated on Jews. It became a major factor in my movement towards the political left. I’d already read 'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck, the Penguin paperback that would change my life. The story of the gas chambers completed the process of radicalisation and would, just three years later, lead me to join the Communist Party.
Phillip AdamsTag: politics sympathy atheist antisemitism holocaust awareness communism germany jews father communist minister steinbeck the-grapes-of-wrath concentration-camps final-solution john-steinbeck christ-killers christian-church communist-party congregational-minister gas-chambers
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Tom RobbinsTag: john-steinbeck
Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.
John SteinbeckTag: happiness childhood kebahagiaan john-steinbeck masa-kecil tortilla-flat
Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.
John SteinbeckTag: fiction cannery-row john-steinbeck
He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row
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