The Grapes of Wrath QUOTES Flashcards

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“Family’s…”

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“Family’s here”

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“We’ll have…”

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“We’ll have a place, a little bit of a place”

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3
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“Twenty…”

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“Twenty families became one”

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4
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“For your…”

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“For your three dollars a day fifteen or twenty families can’t eat at all”

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“She walked …”

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“She walked for the family and held her head straight for the family”

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“Okie…”

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“Okie means you’re scum.”

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“muscles…”

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“muscles aching to work, minds aching to create”

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“We’re…”

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“We’re Joads. We don’t look up to nobody. “

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“He done somepin …”

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“He done somepin to me, made me feel mean. Made me feel ashamed. An’ now I ain’t ashamed. These folks is our folks—is our folks.” - Ma on the Police

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10
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“Why, I feel …”

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“Why, I feel like people again.” - Ma on the Weedpatch

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“Ma looked to…”

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“Ma looked to Tom to speak, because he was a man“

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“The men…”

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“The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled“

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'’Gonna get me…”

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'’Gonna get me a whole big bunch of grapes off a bush, or whatever, an’ I’m gonna squash ‘em on my face an’ let ‘em run offen my chin.’’

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“Pea pickers…”

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“Pea pickers wanted in California. Good wages all season. 800 pickers wanted.”

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“If he needs…”

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“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ‘cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich.”

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16
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“The bank…”

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“The bank - the monster - has to have profits all the time.”

17
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“Why don’t you…”

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“Why don’t you go on west to California? There’s work there and it never gets cold.”

18
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“The quality…”

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“The quality of owning freezes you forever into ‘I’ and cuts you off forever from the ‘we’”

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“this truck…”

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“This truck was the active thing, the living principle”

20
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“there was a…”

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“there was a Hooverville on the edge of every town”

21
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“There was no order…”

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“There was no order in the camp; little grey tents, shack, cars were scattered at random.”

22
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“The dust…”

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“The dust lifted up out of the fields and drove grey plumes into the air like sluggish smoke.”

23
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“The mother…”

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“The mother road, the road of flight.”

24
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“Ma suddenly…”

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“Ma suddenly seemed to know it was all a dream.”

25
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“Somepin it took…”

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“Somepin it took me a year to find out. Took two kids dead, took my wife dead to show me.”

26
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“There’s a grove…”

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“There’s a grove of yella oranges - an’ a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one.”

27
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“How can you… “

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“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children?”

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“I’ll be aroun’…”

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“I’ll be aroun’ in the dark. I’ll be everywhere-wherever you look. Wherever there is a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.”