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Book: The Pearl
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  1. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there
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  2. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book.
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  3. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That Might Be...
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  4. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge. He was trapped as his people were always trapped, and would be until, as he had said, they could be sure that the things in the books ere really in the books.
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  5. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him.And they began this day with hope.
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  6. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.
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  7. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man.
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  8. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.
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  9. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in between anywhere.
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  10. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    Every man suddenly became related to Kino's pearl, and Kino's pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man's enemy. The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it.
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  11. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.
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  12. John Steinbeck _ The Pearl

    A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.
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