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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

John Steinbeck
Eden, Evil, Vices
John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

John Steinbeck
Evil, Stories, Novel
John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.325, Penguin

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.

John Steinbeck
Evil, World, Magnificence
John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.115, Penguin

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