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Description
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots, junk heaps and flop houses of Monterey, Steinbeck once again brings to life the... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.”
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“Doc’s enthusiasm for the octopi indicated that he was not as flexible as she. And no girl likes to lose center stage, particularly to an octopus.”
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“A dame with money was a kind of a half-assed man. She stopped working at being a woman, and, as everybody knows, the finest thing about a woman is that she is a woman.”
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““You take a look at divorces and the reasons for them and you can only think one thing: the only guy that shouldn’t have nothing to do with picking out a wife is the guy that’s going to marry her. That’s a fact. It’s a fact that if he’s left alone a guy practically always marries the wrong kind of dame.””
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“Guy that figured out allergy should of got a patent. A allergy is, you get sick when there’s something you don’t want to do.”
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““What do lemmings do when their population exceeds the food supply? Whole masses of them swim out to sea and drown, until a balance of food and population is reached…. Is the lemming migration a disease? Is it a memory? Or is it a psychic manifestation forced on part of the group for the survival of the whole? …Do you suppose that the tendency toward homosexuality might not also have a mathematical progression? And could this not be the human solution?””
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“…there is nothing more indestructible and deadly than a shy young girl.”
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First Sentence
When the war came to Monterey and to Cannery Row everybody fought it more or less, in one way or another.
Table of Contents
Series
This is book 2 in the Cannery Row series.
Authors & Contributors
- John Steinbeck (Author)
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