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The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, comp...more

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Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean ...more

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I guess there are never enough books.

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I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every da...more

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And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the grea...more

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Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's n...more

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Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them w...more

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The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.