John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men (1937)

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Maybe everybody in the whole damn world's scared of each other.

John Steinbeck
"Well, that glove's fulla vaseline."
"Vaseline? What the hell for?"
Well, I tell ya what — Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife."

John Steinbeck
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

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As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

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His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

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What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don't want no pants rabbits.

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They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.

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In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. there is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.

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Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

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Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

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You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

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You watch your place, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny.

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Well, God knows he don't need any brains to buck barley bags. But don't you try to put nothing over, Milton. I got my eye on you.

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