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“The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness.”

Fiction John Steinbeck Grapes Of Wrath

Book:The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in sports or video games. How could they hold a candle to Mister Darcy’s intensity, Tom Joad’s ethics, Martin Eden’s passion, Caleb Trask’s struggle for goodness, or Edmond Dantes’ cunning intellect?”

Romance Book Lovers Darcy Steinbeck Grapes Of Wrath Martin Eden

Book:Deep Green

Source: Deep Green

“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow. ...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

John Steinbeck Grapes Of Wrath

Book:The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“He liked to think he was in on the secrets she had. When she smiled slyly, he smiled slyly too, and they exchanged confidences in whispers. The world had drawn close around them, and they were in the center of it, or rather Rose of Sharon was in the center of it with Connie making a small orbit about her. Everything they said was a kind of secret.”

Grapes Of Wrath

Author:John Steinbeck

“She looked at him suddenly and closely, to see how he had come so close so quickly. She looked for motive on his face, and found nothing but friendliness. Then she looked at the frayed seams on his white coat, and she was reassured.”

Grapes Of Wrath

Book:The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“This fella in jail, he says, 'Anyways, you do what you can. An',' he says, 'the on'y thing you got to look at is that ever' time they's a little step fo'ward, she may slip back a little, but she never slips clear back. You can prove that,' he says, 'an' that makes the whole thing right. An' that means they wasn't no waste even if it seemed like they was.”

Grapes Of Wrath

Author:John Steinbeck

“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".”

Community Socialism Private Property Great Depression Grapes Of Wrath

Author:John Steinbeck

“I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.”

Heaven Land Migrants Grapes Of Wrath

Book:The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath