Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

They were looking for a home but..

A

All they found was hatred

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2
Q

What is ma described as

A

‘The citadel of the family’

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3
Q

There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no..

A

Virtue just people doin stuff

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4
Q

Fella gets used…

A

To a place it’s hard to go, fella gets used to a way of thinking it’s hard to leave’

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5
Q

Now the dust..

A

Was evenly mixed with the air

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6
Q

And the women came out of..

A

Their houses to stand behind their men

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7
Q

The corn was fallen..

A

Sideways and the dust was piled on it

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8
Q

Boosting and dragging..

A

His shell along

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9
Q

I’m always scared there’s..

A

Wire or glass under the dust

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10
Q

The bank was a..

A

Monster which had ensnared them

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11
Q

The ground vibrated..

A

With its thunder

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12
Q

Graveyard..

A

Ghosts

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13
Q

They tractored..

A

All the tentants off the land

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14
Q

There ain’t nothing..

A

Left

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15
Q

This is the machine..

A

Age

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16
Q

I got a car…

A

We’re going to California

17
Q

The tenant people sifted their…

A

Belongings and the belongings of their fathers and their grandfathers

18
Q

The houses are empty..

A

The land is empty

19
Q

The house was dead,..

A

And the fields were dead but this truck was the active thing

20
Q

Matching man driving…

A

A dead tractor on the land

21
Q

His home is..

A

Not the land

22
Q

The rich..

A

California valleys

23
Q

People flight from…

A

The terror behind them

24
Q

The family became..

25
The dog dodged...
Helplessly with a shriek
26
I lost my land a single..
Tractor took my land I am alone
27
Cars full of stoves an pans...
An mattresses an kids an chickens
28
The highway became...
Their home
29
It ain't good for...
Folks to break up
30
Twenty families became...
One family
31
They say a thousand...
Men are on their way to this field
32
He found that he jus got..
A little piece of a great big soul
33
Fear went from their faces and...
Anger took its place
34
Worse off we get..
The more we got to do
35
And now they were weary and frightened..
As they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them
36
The bank is something more than men I tell you...
Men made it but they can't control it
37
Women and children knew deep...
In themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole
38
Piled in johns house..
Like gophers in a winter burrow
39
She walked..
For the family