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“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“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.' . . . . I figgered, 'Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit-the human sperit-the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of.' Now I sat there thinkin' it, an' all of a suddent-I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true, and I still know it.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.”
― Circling the Sun
― Circling the Sun
“We’re all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren’t your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy.”
― Circling the Sun
― Circling the Sun
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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