Oct 6, 2026
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” — John Steinbeck | Quote of the Day
John Steinbeck, the American Nobel laureate whose 1952 novel East of Eden has surged back up the Wikipedia charts after Netflix’s seven-part adaptation premiered on 1 October 2026, on the quietest and most radical sentence in the book — the one that offers goodness as an alternative to the impossible demand of perfection.