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Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

John Steinbeck

Father, Son, Enemy

John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.53, Penguin

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

John Steinbeck

Angel, Son, Men

John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.9, Penguin

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

John Steinbeck

Strong, Husband, Son

John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.294, Penguin

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

John Steinbeck

Son, Men, Thinking

John Steinbeck (1994). “The Pearl”, p.60, Penguin

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

John Steinbeck

Wise, Strong, Son

John Steinbeck (2008). “Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History”, p.41, Penguin