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“You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Never try to out-drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.”
― The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
― The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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