Last night, reading a post on Brainpickings, one of my favorite sources of challenging, thought-provoking reading, quoted Steinbeck on the on-going battle between good and evil, which left me musing and pondering the thoughts into this morning.
“John Steinbeck wrote as he contemplated good, evil, and the necessary contradiction of human nature at the peak of WWII, ‘All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up.’ ‘It isn’t that the evil wins–it never will–but that it doesn’t die.’
The author of Brainpickings goes on to say, “A decade before he (Steinbeck) won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Steinbeck turned this abiding tug of war between good and evil into a literary inquiry in East of Eden the 1952 novel that gave us his beautiful wisdom and creativity and the meaning of life, eventually adapted into the 1955 film of the same…
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