From John Steinbeck's, The Grapes of Wrath (page 49)--a conversation between Jim Casy and Muley Graves:
“You sharin’ with us, Muley Graves?”
Muley fidgeted in embarrassment. “I ain’t got no choice in the matter.”
He stopped on the ungracious sound of his words.
“That ain’t like I mean it. That ain’t. I mean” – he stumbled – “what I mean, if a fella’s got somepin to eat an’ another fella’s hungry – why, the first fella ain’t got no choice.”
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“You sharin’ with us, Muley Graves?”
Muley fidgeted in embarrassment. “I ain’t got no choice in the matter.”
He stopped on the ungracious sound of his words.
“That ain’t like I mean it. That ain’t. I mean” – he stumbled – “what I mean, if a fella’s got somepin to eat an’ another fella’s hungry – why, the first fella ain’t got no choice.”
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Please let that be the way today's Americans act that way in the coming economic apocalypse.
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