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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck
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“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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tags life, philosophy, short

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

-John Steinbeck, 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, The Grapes of Wrath
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“You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create – this is man.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes it’ll on’y be one.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

-Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
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