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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Alan Marr said: " I am sorry I discovered John Steinbeck so late in my life. I have loved, if not always enjoyed, everything that I have read by him in the past couple of years. This book is an epic tale of a family enduring poverty following the compulsory acquisitio ...more "

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“The jubilee then is about restoring to people the capacity to participate in the economic life of the community for their own viability and society's benefit.”
― Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

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“A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.”
― John Williams, Stoner

tags: war

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“Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

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“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: balance, contention, contradictions

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“Then shadows and shapes, shrouded figures, appeared to join him, apparitions, ancient, mythical faces, wise and beautiful, like holy ghosts, shimmering around around him, beside him, beyond him, enveloped by a brume indescribable, shot through with shafts of pink and blue and gold, as though the heavens themselves had opened up and poured out the light into the world.”
― Peter McKinnon, The Songs of Jesse Adams

tags: transfiguration

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