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The Grapes of Wrath quotes

John Steinbeck

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“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that...” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only ones.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“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.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Death was a friend, and sleep was death’s brother.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“When shoes and clothes and food, when even hope is gone, we'll have the rifle.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes, it’ll on’y be one.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that...” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“If a body's ever took charity, it makes a burn that don't come out.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“That's preachin'. Doin' good to a fella that's down an' can't smack ya in the puss for it. ” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“It's a free country. Well, try to get some freedom to do. Fella says you're jus' as free as you got jack to pay for it.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Jus' live the day . . . Don' worry yaself. ” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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