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East of Eden (1952)
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It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.
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It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
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The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.
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Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.
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You must not expect to find that people understand what they do.
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I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?
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But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.
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I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.
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There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
February 27, 1902
Died:
December 20, 1968
(aged 66)
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