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The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.
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For man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people—we go on.
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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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Born:
February 27, 1902
Died:
December 20, 1968
(aged 66)
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