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"I don't believe in blood," said Samuel. "I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb."

"You can't make a race horse of a pig."

"No," said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig." (p 260)

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Damn, man. Steinbeck is crazy

Steinbeck wrote a Chinese servant named Lee, and in one scene, when Lee offers to fetch tea for Cathy, Lee says, "I bling litta table" (I bring little table).

You got me fucked up, man