“It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “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 love the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
~ John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, 1945
Sunday, October 25, 2009
concomitants of failure
Sunday, October 25, 2009
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2 comments:
Still true today.
sadly, it is.
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