John Steinbeck Quote

I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ever known and you throw on it the acid of your pride, your ugly twisted sense of importance.


Friend Ed to Joe Saul in Act Three, Scene I: The Sea - Burning Bright (1950)


I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have...

I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have...

I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have...

I do understand. I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have...