God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre1958

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional farming family in Georgia obsessed with sex and wealth. The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New Yor… more »



Uncle Felix:
Mr. Ty Ty, you oughta' be out raisin' cotton. You're a good farmer - that is, you USED to be. Why, Mr. Ty Ty, you can raise more cotton on this land in one season than you can find gold in a whole lifetime. It's a waste of everything, Mr. Ty Ty, diggin' them holes all over the place.

Ty Ty Walden:
Well, now, I wish I had spent a little more time on the cotton, that's for sure. If I had 20 or 30 bales to tide me over the fall and winter, I could devote all the rest of my time to diggin'!

Uncle Felix:
But Mr. Ty Ty, where're we gonna' get enough grub to carry us through another winter?

Ty Ty Walden:
We use my credit, like we did last winter!

Uncle Felix:
The store man says you ain't got enough credit to grease the end of your nose.

Ty Ty Walden:
Felix, I'm sorry about that, but there's nothing' I can do. I just GOT to go on diggin'. I got the fever! Ya' can't stop the fever!

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