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“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost”

Book:Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was an American author renowned for his profound depiction of American society and the lives of farmers. His works often explore themes of poverty, social injustice, and human nature. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for his significant contribution to American literature. more

“My Aunt Beverly sashayed when she walked. ... Her walk made the local boys sweat, well until those 'boys' were octogenarians. Anything she carried in her back pocket would have been as happily dizzy as a kid on a carnival ride. She sashayed like a Southern belle born in a time of dungarees and pedal pushers rather than restrictive skirts and social mores; she sashayed like a beautiful woman who was feeling sassy. She WAS beautiful, and she was sassy more often than not.”

Humor Family South Southern Women

Book:It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all

Source: It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all

“If a man doesn't have his family that man has nothing. There's an absolute truth, true meaning in life, and that's a man and his family.”

Kids Family Man Meaning Of Life Fatherhood Absolute Truth Young Adults

Author:Ron Baratono

“When we arrived, we found that the family had draped black linen across the front door. A sign was hung over the ribbon with this announcement scribbled in child’s handwriting: “Dad died. Come on in if you want to see him.”

Family Dad Died

Book:Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

Source: Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

“Would you like to be a family?" Lewis asked slowly, not because he was unsure but because he had nothing to offer her but his self and his time. "A family?" "Yes." "Like, brother and sister?" asked Margaret. "You and me." "Family," Margaret said again, this time through tears. "I thought it would never happen to me.”