“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
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The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award
“I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Variant: If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
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“And her joy was nearly like sorrow.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“I'm jus' pain covered with skin.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
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