Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.
John SteinbeckTag: john-steinbeck sweet-thursday
Only once or twice in her life had she ever understood all of him, but the part of him which she knew, she knew intricately and well. No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.
John SteinbeckTag: john-steinbeck the-moon-is-down
The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness.
John SteinbeckTag: fiction grapes-of-wrath john-steinbeck
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased
John SteinbeckTag: john-steinbeck
And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'thou mayest'.
John SteinbeckTag: man soul theology east-of-eden john-steinbeck
I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I’ve never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.
John SteinbeckTag: east-of-eden curiousity john-steinbeck
I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.
John SteinbeckTag: love hate odd john-steinbeck the-winter-of-our-discontent
For how can one know colour in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
John SteinbeckTag: john-steinbeck
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