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Quotes of the Week - January 17, 2012:
"Our campaign is about more than replacing a President. It is about
saving the soul of America." -- Republican Mitt Romney, US presidential
hopeful, after winning New Hampshire primary.
"Remember to look up at the stars and not down to your feet. Try
to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe
exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always
something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just
give up." -- Professor Stephen Hawking on his 70th birthday.
"American children had never seen a moving bosom before."
-- Actress Celia Imrie on the alarm caused by her low-cut dress in Nanny
McPhee.
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| Authors: The Grapes of Wrath Quotes,
Important Quotes from John Steinbeck novel |
The Grapes of Wrath
Quotes 1 2  |
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Mice and Men |
Houses
were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows,
but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in
the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables,
on the dishes.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 1 |
Before
I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There
ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people
do. It's all part of the same thing.' . . . . I says, 'What's
this call, this sperit?' An' I says, 'It's love. I love people
so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.' . . . . I figgered, 'Why
do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe
it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit-the
human sperit-the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul
ever'body's a part of.' Now I sat there thinkin' it, an' all
of a suddent-I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true,
and I still know it.
The Grapes of Wrath
Jim Casy in Chapter 4 |
They
breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't
get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat.
[referring to the banks]
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 5 |
The
bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster.
Men made it, but they can't control it.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 5 |
It
ain't that big. The whole United States ain't that big. It ain't
that big. It ain't big enough. There ain't room enough for you
an' me, for your kind an' my kind, for rich and poor together
all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and
fat.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 12 |
Man,
unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe,
grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts,
emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 14 |
Fear
the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live -
for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being
taken … fear the time when Manself will not suffer and
die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of
Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 14 |
Is
a tractor bad? Is the power that turns the long furrows wrong?
If this tractor were ours, it would be good - not mine, but
ours. We could love that tractor then as we have loved this
land when it was ours. But this tractor does two things - it
turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference
between this tractor and a tank. The people were driven, intimidated,
hurt by both. We must think about this.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 14 |
Okie
use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty
son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself,
it's the way they say it.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 18 |
I
know this … a man got to do what he got to do.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 18 |
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| The Grapes of Wrath
Quotes 1 2 |
| John Steinbeck: American writer of
The Grapes of Wrath, the 1939 Pulitzer prize-winning novel. Set in
the Great Depression, it tells the story of a family of poor sharecroppers
on their failing Oklahoma farm, who travel to California in search
of work and dignity. Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas,
California, United States. He died on December 20, 1968. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature 1962. |
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