"All of them had a restlessness in common."
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"Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be."
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"I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all."
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"A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly."
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"I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it."
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"Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess."
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"Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him."
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"I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times."
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"But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been"
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"For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have."
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"As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself."
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"Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it."
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"She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do."
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"My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size."
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"It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?"
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"A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction."
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"I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand."
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"It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way."
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"For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear."
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"When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley"
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