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'Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an' he foun' he didn't have no soul that was his'n. Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.'

'And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange '
Slaughter of the pigs: In September 1933, over 6 million pigs were slaughtered to stabilize prices, while most of the meat went to waste.

Casy said gently, 'Sure I got sins. A sin is somepin you ain't sure about. Them people that's sure about ever'thing an' ain't got no sin- well, with that kind a son-of-a-bitch, if I was God I'd kick their ass right outa heaven! I couldn't stand 'em!'

'In the evening a strange thing happened: The twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all.'

'I never heard tell of no Joads or Hazletts, neither refusing food or shelter or a lift on the road to anyone who asked. They's been mean Joads but never that mean.'