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“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung”
“And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.”
“To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)”
“The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.”
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took ...”
“He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since hi...”
“Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at the one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, ans she let ...”
“And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and...”
