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Author - Studs Terkel
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spirit
I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have....
Speaks
I want a language that speaks the truth.
welfare
Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to have....
Envy
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add,....
observation
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Hope
That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that....
Internet
I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each....
world war two
How goddamn foolish it is, the war. They's no war in the worth that's worth fightin' for. I don't care....
Despair
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never....
American
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence....
sociology
Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada?....
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