Quotes from Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"

I know I haven't been posting for ages. In fact, when I went to this blog I didn't even know if it's still here. I logged in and of course everything looks different and it takes me 2 minutes to figure out how to write a post, hm... Anyway, my reason for posting is that I'm reading Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" at the moment and it's stiring something that is important to me. Here it is:

  "Anybody can break down. It takes a man not to."

  "It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it."

  "He was a good hard worker and would make a good husband. He drank enough, but not to much; fought when it was requiered of him; and never boasted."

  "The tenant pondered.'Funy thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn't doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he is bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn't successfull he's big with his property. That is so.'
  And the tenant pondered more. 'But let a man get property he doesn't see, or can't take time to get his fingers in, or can't be there to walk on it - why, then the property is the man. He can't do what he wants, he can't think what he wants. The property is the man, stronger than he is. And he is small, not big. Only his possessions are big - and he's the servant of his property. That is so, too.'"

John Steinbeck - "The Grapes of Wrath"