"To be alive at all is to have scars." -John Steinbeck
This quote comes from Steinbeck's The Winter of our Discontent, the author's final novel, which addressed what Steinbeck saw as broad moral decline in America throughout the 1950s. At first, the novel was not as well received as Steinbeck's more famous works, but it has been increasingly regarded as more complex and incisve than reviewers immediately gave it credit for. "Strength and success -- they are above morality, above criticism," wrote Steinbeck. "It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it."
