Best quotes by Carolyn Chute on People

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• ‟ I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

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• ‟ I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

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• ‟ We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

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• ‟ Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.

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• ‟ People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

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• ‟ With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.

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• ‟ My people are mostly underweight or overweight - however it is they turned out, like good bread. Bring back the hunched-over people... Bring back humanity.

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• ‟ When people do come face to face with each other as human beings, they begin to understand each other better.

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