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“History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides
“When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.”
― Indian Tales
― Indian Tales
“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
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“They will never again build like this, he thought. Dignity is an anachronism.”
― In This Our Life
― In This Our Life
“And then the leaves break out on the trees, and the petals drop from the fruit trees and carpet the earth with pink and white. The centers of the blossoms swell and grow and color: cherries and apples, peaches and pears, figs which close the flower in the fruit. All California quickens with produce, and the fruit grows heavy, and the limbs bend gradually under the fruit so that little crutches must be placed under them to support the weight.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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Chuck’s 2025 Year in Books
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