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Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)

Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row

(7 total)

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John Steinbeck (7)

“It’s all fine to say, ‘Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget’ - and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, Healing, Pain, Empathy

“Lee Chong’s grocery, while not a model of neatness, was a miracle of supply.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books, California, food, Monterey County

“You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice, Opinions, agreement

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: kindness, Friendship, Suicide, Death

“It’s all fine to say, ‘Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget’—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Healing, Time, Change

“It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, 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…”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: kindness, Honesty, Success, Greed

“Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Love, Acceptance, Life