No one who is young is ever going to be old.
("East of Eden")
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I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.
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She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did.
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They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin.
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All we got is the family unbroke.
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No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
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