The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

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“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”

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

“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”

“...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.”

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

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”

“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”

“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.”

“Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”

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strength, repression, laughter, death-and-dying, women, sleep