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"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed." - John Steinbeck
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.