East of Eden Quotes

If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

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Everyone knows that all these big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t...