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View Plans“ ”...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
About John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (27 February 1902 – 20 December 1968) was an American writer. A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, his works include the novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and the novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Great Depression.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Additional quotes by John Steinbeck
"Was she very beautiful, Samuel?"
"To you she was because you built her. I don't think you ever saw her — only your own creation."
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states.