"Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion."
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"Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?"
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"Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech."
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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."
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"I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails."
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"The human is the only guilty animal."
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"Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards"
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"Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think."
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"Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing."
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"The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore."
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"Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers."
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"It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it."
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"Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone."
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"Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things."
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"The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it."
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"But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again."
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"Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way."
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"...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them."
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"He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure."
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"Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar."
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