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Tobacco Road
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"Tobacco Road" Quotes

A poor and dysfunctional family in rural Georgia struggles to survive during the Great Depression.

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She was a large woman with a plain broad face, and she had a long thick nose.

Erskine Caldwell

physical description

He was a tall man with a lean, bony, clean-shaven face.

Erskine Caldwell

physical description

I ain't got time to be sick.

Erskine Caldwell

determination

I ain't got time to be lonesome.

Erskine Caldwell

determination

I got to have me some vittles, and then I got to have me some whiskey.

Erskine Caldwell

foodalcohol

Nobody's goin' to gimme nothin' unless I take it away from 'em.

Erskine Caldwell

determination

I'm goin' to make a lot of money and I'm goin' to have me a lot of big times.

Erskine Caldwell

ambition

I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have my arm around me.

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loneliness

I ain't never goin' to be happy until I got me a wife and a passel of youngin's.

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marriagefamily

I don't know what to do with myself unless I'm makin' love.

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love