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"Especially if you've read other Steinbeck books and didn't like them. There's only so many books you will read in a lifetime. Drop whatever you are reading right now. Read East of Eden"
"First — if you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you. Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugl"
"They funded and publish lots of working class writers, painters, musicians (Steinbeck, London, O'Neil, Guthrie all owe their careers to Wobblies)."
"Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts—the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation. And on top of these are all the gratitude and love I"
"Like yea it's Brocialist lit 101 and it's not Joyce or Pynchon or even Franzen or Knausgaard. Anybody can read Steinbeck and honestly that's definitely part of why I like it, it's like a delicious classic dish like spaghetti and meatballs - satisfying and not super complicated. Engaging characters a"
"Steinbeck said socialism will never take root in America because the poor see themselves as 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires'. Love the man, Im sure it was apt in 1916, but the phrase today is just unpejorativey the real descriptor of your whole middle class identity."
"What the hell John you're killing me over here. If a beautiful gopher in the prime of his life with a prime real estate home can't find love how can we ever dream to?"
"What a beautiful dark but hopeful book. I struggle to cry, I'm embarrassed by it and often I think about why I can't, but this books ending nearly got me there. Masterful!"
"Overall the book feels like it has enormous love for humanity, which I don't usually seek out in literature but was nice to find here. Anyway sorry for the GoodReads-tier post about an Oprah-tier book, I admit I blew through it cause I am addicted to nic and allowed myself to hit the vape every 4 pa"
"What the hell John you're killing me over here. If a beautiful gopher in the prime of his life with a prime real estate home can't find love how can we ever dream to?"