Thursday, October 9, 2025

The Things We Admire, Those Traits We Detest, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, 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.” ― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/585.John_Steinbeck.

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