Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you’re catching a cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts will not satisfy. Isn’t overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent? And isn’t discontent the lever of change?
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states.
And the hatred was deep in the eyes of the people, beneath the surface.
But this – this is a ladder to climb to the stars.” Lee’s eyes shone. “You can never lose that. It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.
We have made our mark on the world, but we have really done nothing that the trees and creeping plants, ice and erosion, cannot remove in a fairly short time.
Got a lot of sinful idears – but they seem kinda sensible.
And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted.
Now what the hell do you suppose is eatin’ them two guys?
It is not good to have so many breakable things around. When they are broken you become sad. It is much better never to have had them.
And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.
I climb fences when i got fences to climb.
I don’t want advice.′ ‘Nobody does. It’s a giver’s present.
It was a matter of some sorrow to Fauna that she didn’t entirely believe in astrology, but she had found that nearly everyone wants to believe that the stars take notice of us.
Mostly I’m too damn busy to know how I feel.
Beyond my failings as a racist, I knew I was not wanted in the South. When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses.
I’m learnin’ one thing good,” she said. “Learnin’ it all a time, ever’ day. If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.
The thing that give me the mos’ trouble was, it didn’t make no sense. You don’t look for no sense when lightnin’ kill a cow, or it comes up a lood. That’s jus’ the way things is. But when a bunch of men take an’ lock you up four years, it ought to have some meaning. Men is supposed to think things out. Here they put me in an’ keep me an’ feed me four years. That ought to either make me so I won’t do her again or else punish me so I’ll be afraid to do her again.
A man looking at reality brings his own limitations to the world.