East of Eden Quotes

“When a child first catches adults out . . . his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whisky to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:suffering

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:imagination hell

“it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:present forgetting

“Now and then a smart girl came into the profession, but she usually moved up to better things. She got a house of her own or worked successfully at blackmail or married a rich man. There was even a special name for the smart ones. They were...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:intelligence

“In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:danger

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:judgement

“Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:cowardice

“There's a capacity for appetite . . . that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:satisfaction want

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:personality

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