Posts Tagged ‘John Steinbeck’
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 135)
The things we admire in men, kindness, generosity, openness, honesty, and understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 135)
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 132)
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism–either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 132)
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 18)
What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 18)
