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Quote 15: "I must stick a little incense before those two in the small temple. Quote 14: "Hunger makes a thief of any man." Chapter 15, pg. Quote 13: "The hour has come-the gates of the rich man are open to us!" Chapter 14, pg. Money and food are eaten and gone, and if there is not sun and rain in proportion, there is again hunger." Chapter 14, pg. He belonged to the land and he could not live with any fullness until he felt the land under his feet and followed a plow in the springtime and bore a scythen in his hand at harvest." Chapter 14, pg. he belonged, not to this scum which clung to the walls of a rich man's house nor did he belong to the rich man's house. Quote 11: "But Wang Lung thought of his land and pondered this way and that, with the sickened heart of deferred hope, how he could get back to it. Quote 10: "When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways.and that way will come soon." Chapter 13, pg. Quote 9: "I shall never sell the land! Bit by bit, I will dig up the fields and feed the earth itself to the children and when they die I will bury them in the land, and I and my wife and my old father, even he, we will die on the land that has given us birth." Chapter 9, pg. I have the land still, and it is mine." Chapter 8, pg. if I had bought with the silver to store it, they would have taken it all. If I had the silver, they would have taken it. the labor of my body and the fruit of the fields I have put into that which cannot be taken away. Quote 8: "They cannot take the land away from me. Quote 7: "Well and must all starve if the plants starve." Chapter 8, pg.

Quote 6: "It is only a slave this time-not worth mentioning." Chapter 7, pg. Quote 5: "Last year this time I was slave in that house." Chapter 5, pg. Land is one's flesh and blood." Chapter 5, pg. Quote 4: "Sell their land! Then indeed are they growing poor. Quote 3: "Out of this body of his, out of his own loins, life!" Chapter 2, pg. They worked on, moving together-together-producing the fruit of this earth." Chapter 1, pg. So would also their house, some time, return into the earth, their bodies also. Quote 2: "There was only this perfect sympathy of movement, of turning this earth of theirs over and over to the sun, this earth which formed their home and fed their bodies and made their gods.Some time, in some age, bodies of men and women had been buried there, houses had stood there, had fallen, and gone back into the earth.