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"Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Miguel de Cervantes, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London--all served in navies, worked in shipping, or sailed around the world, all turned their experiences of adventure on the high seas into great literature."
"They funded and publish lots of working class writers, painters, musicians (Steinbeck, London, O'Neil, Guthrie all owe their careers to Wobblies)."
"They are a company of celibates, grinding harshly against one another and growing daily more calloused from the grinding. It seems to me impossible sometimes that they ever had mothers. It would appear that they are a half-brute, half-human species, a race apart, wherein there is no such thing as se"