“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Collected Verse from 1929 On
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Collected Verse from 1929 On
“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
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“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― The New Life
― The New Life
“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark
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