May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.
I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an_ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an_ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of __m__ got a little piece of land in his head. An_ never a God damn one of __m ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever__ody wants a little piece of lan_. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.
The Grapes of Wrath
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I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an_ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an_ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of __m__ got a little piece of land in his head. An_ never a God damn one of __m ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever__ody wants a little piece of lan_. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.
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