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It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a sti...more

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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahea...more

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Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the conco...more

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...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only o...more

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Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.

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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits...more

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Courage and fear were one thing too.

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Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

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Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and genero...more

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She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the...more

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Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowe...more

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Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much....more

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Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.