Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Quotes

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.

Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.