“I believe there is one story in the world, and only one,
that has frightened and inspired us, so we live in a Pearl White serial of
continuing thought and wonder. 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. I think this is
the only story we have and it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence.
Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they’ll be
the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and
river and mountain, on economy and manners. There is no other story. A man,
after he’s brushed off the dust and chips of life, will have left only the
hard, clean questions: Was it good or evil? Have I done well, or ill?” – John
Steinbeck
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