The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.
Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.
Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.
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, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.