And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.
John SteinbeckThat man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.
John SteinbeckIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John SteinbeckThen it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
John SteinbeckTime interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
John Steinbeck