John Steinbeck Quotes
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Viking Press, 1939, p. 321.
She was actually convicted of inciting to riot for this statement even though there was no riot. The thought of tens of thousands of unemployed workers going from house to house, office to office, store to store, asking for work or food, and possibly taking food was thoroughly intimidating to most of the American population. Goldman served one year in prison.
The bell refers to the hand bell that was used at the time by the wealthy to summon servants for food or any other errand.
This is exactly what happened in Scotland, and accounts for the large number of Scottish emigrants who populated many countries of the world.
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.
