This is my favorite Literary passage ever. Its Steinbeck from Cannery Row.
"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openess, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
"Who wants to be good if he has to be hungry too?" said Richard Frost.
I know its a bit preachy and socialist...but damn if it ain't truthful.
2 comments:
that's a good one...i should put up some of my favorites.
Damn that shit's deep, and right on target.
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