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“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

“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

“When I was young they wrote it in fiery letters: THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE! Science”
― Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales