"Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth,...
Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.
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"It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have calle...
"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continui...
"The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.
"The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on t...
"Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.
"An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.
"It ain't kin we? It's will we?
"The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man....For man, unlike any other...
"But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This lan...
"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...
"Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're th...