For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of
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Steinbeck on old age
Who doesn’t like to be a center for concern? A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for
beating of schoolchildren
One case Boswell lost was a defense of a schoolmaster who had thrashed his pupils violently. During a London visit he brought it up
child mortality
Tragically, the family experienced an appalling toll of mortality, which was not exceptional at the time. During the space of fourteen years Hester bore
Steinbeck on immigration
It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do
Steinbeck on fear
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I
Steinbeck on mental filtering process
Go to the Uffizi in Florence, the Louvre in Paris, and you are so crushed with the numbers, once the might of greatness, that
Steinbeck on old time religion
It is our practice now, at least in the large cities, to find from our psychiatric priesthood that our sins aren’t really sins at
Steinbeck on change
This sounds as though I bemoan an older time, which is the preoccupation of the old, or cultivate an opposition to change, which is
Steinbeck on baby talk to animals
I yield to no one in my distaste for the self-styled dog-lover, the kind who heaps up his frustrations and makes a dog carry