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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · Madison Wheeler

“Factory work’s easier on the back, and I don’t mind it, understand, but a man becomes what he does. Got to watch that. That’s why I keep at farmin’, although the crops haven’t ever throve. It’s the doin’ that’s important.”

– Madison Wheeler, quoted in Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, Back Bay Books, 1982, pg. 31.

From volume IX of the file · Book · 20th century

Themes: the land · work