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House Quotes by John Steinbeck
- The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
- The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech…
- A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In…
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy…
- 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…
- The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
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- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. — Saint Augustine
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
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- Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? — Teresa of Avila
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