John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath"
May 19, 2018 09:17:39 #
Free Download: John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath"
"The Grapes of Wrath" (Excerpts)
by John Steinbeck
"They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." [referring to the banks- CP]
"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it."
"It ain't that big. The whole United States ain't that big. It ain't that big. It ain't big enough. There ain't room enough for you an' me, for your kind an' my kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat."
"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
"How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him- he has known a fear beyond every other."
"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage...”
- John Steinbeck: American writer of “The Grapes of Wrath,” the 1939 Pulitzer
prize-winning novel. Born 1902. Died 1968. Nobel Prize for Literature 1962.
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"The Grapes of Wrath" (Excerpts)
by John Steinbeck
"They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." [referring to the banks- CP]
"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it."
"It ain't that big. The whole United States ain't that big. It ain't that big. It ain't big enough. There ain't room enough for you an' me, for your kind an' my kind, for rich and poor together all in one country, for thieves and honest men. For hunger and fat."
"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."
"How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him- he has known a fear beyond every other."
"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage...”
- John Steinbeck: American writer of “The Grapes of Wrath,” the 1939 Pulitzer
prize-winning novel. Born 1902. Died 1968. Nobel Prize for Literature 1962.
•
Any of this sound familiar? Look around...
Freely download "The Grapes of Wrath", by John Steinbeck, here:
- http://nisbah.com/summer_reading/grapes_of_wrath_john_steinbeck2.pdf
May 19, 2018 09:39:52 #
May 20, 2018 18:36:23 #
pafret wrote:
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Yep,! Sadness brings us closer to God because It was a very sad event the time before time was a composite part, as a relevant calibration of what stuff has happened, you remember, actually I'm talking about a reversal.
For now we see stars before we black out, before we give up the fight, not necessarily because we want to, but because we was knocked out.
I mean when no stars were in anyone's mind or anywhere at all, there was a thought about what could be, how sad it was to leave nothing at all.
Connie left Rose of Sharon, was he no good the question got asked?.
Or was he just going back to the beginning which everyone will do anyway.
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