East of Eden Quotes

“not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:evil

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:loneliness greatness

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:courage children

“He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:courage virtue

“Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:virtue

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“No one who is young is ever going to be old.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:youth age

“the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:poverty

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:thought speech

“It was his first sharp experience with the rule that without money you cannot fight money.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:money fight

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