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little bears capering around a cereal box

They’re aware that they’re talking about little bears capering around a cereal box and they’re arguing which way the bears should go. It’s a silly thing for adults to be doing. At the same time, they’re aware the client’s going to spend a million dollars on television time to run this commercial. M…

—p.112 Working Book Two: The Commercial (112) by Studs Terkel
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I always have this feeling of interruption

I never answer the phone at home. It carries over. The way I talk to people on the phone has changed. Even when my mother calls, I don’t talk to her very long. I want to see people to talk to them. But now, when I see them, I talk to them like I was talking on the telephone. It isn’t a conscious pr…

—p.58 Book Two: Communications (57) by Studs Terkel
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it’s food for your soul that you know you did it good

That building we put up, a medical building. Well, that granite was imported from Canada. It was really expensive. Well, I set all this granite around there. So you do this and you don’t make a scratch on it. It’s food for your soul that you know you did it good. Where somebody walks by this buildi…

—p.54 Book One: Working the Land (25) by Studs Terkel
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this was a worse toreup place than Vietnam

Our boy in the Navy when he comes back, he says all he can see is the mountain tore up with bulldozers. Even the new roads they built, they’s debris on it and you can’t hardly get through it sometimes. I guess that’s what they send our boys off to fight for, to keep ‘em a free country and then they…

—p.43 Book One: Working the Land (25) by Studs Terkel
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I’d see endless rows of lettuce

There were times when I felt I couldn’t take it any more. It was 105 in the shade and I’d see endless rows of lettuce and I felt my back hurting . . . I felt the frustration of not being able to get out of the fields. I was getting ready to jump any foreman who looked at me cross-eyed. But until tw…

—p.37 Book One: Working the Land (25) by Studs Terkel