The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. …

John Steinbeck
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The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels. ✨ John Steinbeck (2002). East of Eden, p.190, Penguin
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