“I believe that there is one story in the world, and
only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their
hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and
generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man,
after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only
the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or
ill?” —American novelist and Nobel Literature laureate John Steinbeck
(1902-1968), East of Eden (1952)
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