Leaving a Legacy

I just finished reading one of John Steinbeck's major works, East of Eden (1952), and discussed it with our literary group on Saturday evening, March 4. I was captivated by Steinbeck's brilliant insights and character development and couldn't put the book down. Always reading with pen in hand, I noted some of his greatest lines. Here are three:

"You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing."

"Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant."

"Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands."

John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.