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"okay so virginia woolf just sent me into a spiral because every literary "era" is defined by something that a group of authors do differently compared to those who have come before and it takes a group of people to defy convention to create a new hallmark of literature and that's truly so real and so cool and so inspiring #iloveessays" — Apr 12, 2025 12:22AM
"okay so virginia woolf just sent me into a spiral because every literary "era" is defined by something that a group of authors do differently compared to those who have come before and it takes a group of people to defy convention to create a new hallmark of literature and that's truly so real and so cool and so inspiring #iloveessays" — Apr 12, 2025 12:22AM
“Every heart has its own skeletons.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Sure, cried the tenant men,but it’s our land…We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours….That’s what makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it."
"We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man."
"Yes, but the bank is only made of men."
"No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
"We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man."
"Yes, but the bank is only made of men."
"No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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