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Highlights
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. 3 Lee Chong’s is to the right of the vacant lot (although why it is called vacant when it is piled high with old boilers, with rusting pipes, with great square timbers, and stacks of five-gallon cans, no one can say).
<Cannery Row>(Steinbeck, John) Highlight on Location 137-143 2020-04-21 00:37:25
loved to hear conversation but he didn’t listen to words—
<Cannery Row>(Steinbeck, John) Highlight on Location 329-329 2020-04-22 01:04:51
He protested that there were philosophic implications in flag-pole skating that no one had touched.
<Cannery Row>(Steinbeck, John) Highlight on Location 1396-1397 2020-04-25 01:09:31
Put in some milk, and add half a bottle of beer. Give me the other half in a glass—no sugar in the milk shake.”
<Cannery Row>(Steinbeck, John) Highlight on Location 1473-1474 2020-04-25 01:13:58
No one has studied the psychology of a dying party.
<Cannery Row>(Steinbeck, John) Highlight on Location 1761-1762 2020-04-25 22:54:06
If I done a good thing it got poisoned up some way. If I give her a present they was something wrong with it. She only got hurt from me.
<Cannery Row>(Steinbeck, John) Highlight on Location 1838-1839 2020-04-25 22:57:43
“It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
<Cannery Row>(Steinbeck, John) Highlight on Location 2011-2015 2020-04-25 23:22:26
And it is also generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended.
<Cannery Row>(Steinbeck, John) Highlight on Location 2642-2642 2020-04-26 01:07:35