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• The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

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  Girl, Husband, Servant

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• Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

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  Men, Hazards

  John Steinbeck (2010). “Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down”, p.13, Penguin

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• If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

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  Good Things, Best Things, Happens

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.505, Penguin

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• George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.

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  Voice, Guy, World

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.209, Penguin

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• But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

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  Boys, Starting Over, Over You

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• Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

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  Art, Men, Literature

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• Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.

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  Kids, People, Different

  The Grapes of Wrath ch. 20 (1939)

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

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  Football, Two, People

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• Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.

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  Book, Land, Heaven

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

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  Feelings, Doe, Sometimes

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.506, Penguin

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• A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

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  Dog, Butterfly, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.39, Penguin

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• She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

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  Brain, Mind, Down And

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.13, Penguin

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• The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

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  Fighting, Winning, Unique

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• This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.

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  Religious, Philosophy, School

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

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  Travel, Struggle, Journey

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

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  Inspirational, Endurance, Dying

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.131, Penguin

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• Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

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  Men, World, May

  John Steinbeck (1997). “The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

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  Couple, War, Fate

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• In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

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  Summer, Flower, Sunset

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.156, Penguin

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• You got to live before you can afford to die.

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  Dies

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• But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

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  Answers, Habit, Wanted

  John Steinbeck (2002). “Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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• The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.

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  Science, Differences, Different

  John Steinbeck (1996). “The grapes of wrath and other writings, 1936-1941”, Library of America

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