Book: The grapes of wrath

I all the time listen. Because think about it. First, listen to what people say, and then begin to understand what they're feeling. I hear all the time, I can feel it; people are beaten with wings like birds, flown to the attic. It will end because they will break their wings on a dusty glass and will never break.

If a million acres he needed to feel his wealth, then his soul is impoverished, and with a soul no millions will help.

You just want to talk. If you hanged on the gallows, would you and the hangman spread the word.

From not having the ownership of a person to know the painful itching of possessiveness.

Every night the world was built anew, and it had everything - friendship and enmity; it has been boasters and cowards, were quiet people, humble people, good people.
Each night there was a relationship between people, without which there can be no peace, and each morning he shot up like a traveling circus.

Argue, always argue, don't give up without a fight. After that, you feel like a man. And he also feels man.

Traders have one concern: to make but to cheat, and it is called they have different... that's the point. Steal the tire and you're a thief, and he tried to steal your four dollars - and that's okay. Is Commerce.

And little by little I realized that all the evil in need.

Gloomy eyes do not like neither the sun, nor wind, nor earth, they disgust to food, to the sense of fatigue and hatred of the time that few people colors, and of all ages.

Prison does its job slowly, but surely, she's driving a man crazy.

We are proud to have been able to help. People have such a need to help each other.

Everything we do, everything leads us further and further away. So it seems to me. Even hunger, even illness; some die and others will become only stronger. Need from day to day to stay, today's the day to live.

The sins are at all. What seems to us a sin? What we don't feel confidence. And those who are certain of everything and doesn't know any sins, those bastards I in the place of God, would be driven kick in the ass out of heaven. To see them I can.

Man, though stumbling, and stretches forward, goes further and sometimes makes a mistake and receives a severe shock. Taking a step forward, he can go back, but only a half step - full step back he would never do.