Steinbeck wrote about the Depression and how hard people's lives were, but he also makes so much comment about itinerant farm workers and race relations. He does a wonderful job illuminating character. He records the best and worst of human behavior. If you're looking for a window back to this time, this is it.
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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
William Empson
As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
John Spratt
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land