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We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

John Steinbeck
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I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. 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.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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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'.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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I climb fences when i got fences to climb.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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It ain't kin we? It's will we?

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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They got to live before they can afford to die.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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