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“the muck of advertisements blinking away)”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“The coyotes nuzzled along the slopes and, torn with sorrow-joy, raised their heads and shouted their feeling, half keen, half laughter, at their goddess moon. And over all the shadowy screech owls sailed, drawing a smudge of shadowy fear below them on the ground. The wind of the afternoon was gone and only a little breeze like a sigh was stirred by the restless thermals of the warm, dry hills.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I got to figure,’’ the tenant said. “We all got to figure. There’s some way to stop this. It’s not like lightning or earthquakes. We’ve got a bad thing made by men, and by God that’s something we can change.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Several times also Marathe called U.S.A. to Steeply ‘Your walled nation’ or ‘Your murated nation.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest