“Almost instinctively he went about learning the truth and at the same time disbelieved it.”
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Steinbeck considered East of Eden to be his masterpiece. In his journal, Journal of a Novel (often read as a companion to the novel) he notes that “this is the book I have always wanted and have worked and prayed to be able to write Set primarily in the Salinas Valley in the early twentieth century, the novel traces three generations of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – as they grapple with the ever-present forces of good and evil. From this plot emerged some of Steinbeck’s most fascinating characters – many of whom are modeled after people in his own life. Part allegory, part autobiography, and part epic, East of Eden was an ambitious project from the start – a gift to Steinbeck’s sons that was meant to teach them about identity, grief, and what it means to be human. Tinged with biblical echoes of the fall of Adam and Eve and the rivalry of Cain and Abel, this sprawling saga has captivated audiences everywhere for generations. It is through the popularization of East of Eden that the Salinas Valley was truly transformed into “the valley of the world”; a place where everyone is able to find a piece of themselves in the golden, rolling hills. ([source][1]) ---------- Contains: - [East of Eden 1/2][2] - [East of Eden 2/2][3] ---------- Also contained in: - [East of Eden / The Wayward Bus][4] - [The Grapes of Wrath / The Moon is Down / Cannery Row / East of Eden / Of Mice and Men][5] - [Novels 1942-1952](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15334093W/Novels_1942-1952) - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Spring 1953 Selections](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15158232W) [1]: http://www.steinbeck.org/about-john/his-works/ [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17811975W/East_of_Eden_1_2 [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18023025W/East_of_Eden_2_2 [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15138391W/East_of_Eden_The_Wayward_Bus [5]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23165W/The_Grapes_of_Wrath_The_Moon_is_Down_Cannery_Row_East_of_Eden_Of_Mice_and_Men
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“Almost instinctively he went about learning the truth and at the same time disbelieved it.”
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“A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless agai...”
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“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how...”
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“I 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.”
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“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.”
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“It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because th...”
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“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...”
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“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
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“Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”
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“Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it i...”
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“A man without words is a man without thought.”
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“All great and precious things are lonely.”
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“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of the...”
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“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my t...”
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