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Quotes from the movie East of Eden
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"He said there couldn't be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb. He saw a time when one man would know only one little fragment, but he would know it well."
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"Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small. Maybe, kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming atom-sized in their souls. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist missesóthe whole world over his fence."
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"But with a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration."
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"Every man has a retirement picture in which he does those things he never had time to do--makes journeys, reads the neglected books he always pretended to have read."
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"Where is he?" "How do I know?" said Cal. "Am I supposed to look after him?"
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"All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed--selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful--we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time fightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic--and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture."
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"Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight--the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards."
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"Can you think that whatever made us--would stop trying?"
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