Quotes: "Men made it, but they can't control it..."
One of my favorite books of all time is Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Today we have quotations from that book.
Tommy, don't you go fightin' 'em alone. They'll hunt you down like a coyote. Tommy, I got to thinkin' and dreamin' and wonderin'. They say there's a hun'erd thousand of us shoved out. If we was all mad the same way, Tommy-they wouldn't hunt nobody down.--Chapter 8
It ain't that big. The whole United States ain't that big. It ain't that big. It ain't big enough. There ain't room enough for you an' me, for your kind an' my kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat.--Chapter 12
Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do."--Chapter 18
Whenever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Whenever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an' I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build - why, I'll be there.--Chapter 28
MYSTERY QUOTE ANSWER: Socrates
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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.-- Chapter 4!!!! My FAVORITE!!!!
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.--Chapter 5Tommy, don't you go fightin' 'em alone. They'll hunt you down like a coyote. Tommy, I got to thinkin' and dreamin' and wonderin'. They say there's a hun'erd thousand of us shoved out. If we was all mad the same way, Tommy-they wouldn't hunt nobody down.--Chapter 8
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Death is one of two things...Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another. See at the bottom for the answer.*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
It ain't kin we? It's will we? As far as 'kin,' we can't do nothin', not go to California or nothin'; but as far as 'will,' why we'll do what we will. An' as far as 'will' it's a long time our folks been here and east before, an' I never heerd tell of no Joads or no Hazletts, neither, ever refusin' food an' shelter or a lift on the road to anybody that asked. They's been mean Joads, but never that mean.--Chapter 10It ain't that big. The whole United States ain't that big. It ain't that big. It ain't big enough. There ain't room enough for you an' me, for your kind an' my kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat.--Chapter 12
Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do."--Chapter 18
Whenever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Whenever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an' I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build - why, I'll be there.--Chapter 28
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?
Death is one of two things...Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.MYSTERY QUOTE ANSWER: Socrates
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