Of mice and men quotes
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Crooks
“light with pleasure in his torture”
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Slim to Curley
“the dirty little rat”
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Candy about Curley’s wife
“a tart”
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Lennie
“bleated with terror”
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George shooting Lennie
“the hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied”
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George about Lennie
“I ain’t sayin’ he bright, he ain’t but he’s hell of a good worker”
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Curley refering to Lennie
“I’m gonna get ‘im” “I’ll shoot ‘im in the guts”
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Slim
the prince of the ranch”
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Carlson
“look down at the old dog”
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Curley
“looked threateningly about the room”
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Curley
“calculating and pugnacious”
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George
“I ain’t so bright either, or I wouldn’t be buckin’ barley”
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George about Lennie. To protect him.
“Hell of a nice fella, but he ain’t bright”
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Slim
“calm eyes”
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Slim
“godlike eyes”
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Crooks
“he fell slowly to rubbing his back”
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Crooks
“This is just a n\*\*\* talkin’, an’ a busted-back n\*\*\*\*\*”
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Crooks
“I tell ya a guy gets to lonely an’ gets sick”
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Crooks
“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody”
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Crooks
“proud aloof man”
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Crooks
“mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905”
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Curley’s wife to Crooks
“I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny”
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Lennie
“paws” “like a terrier”
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Crooks to Lennie
“crazy as a wedge”
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George to Lennie
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the word”
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Curley
“hands closed into fists”
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Curley
“flopping like a fish on a line”
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Slim about Lennie
“like a kid”
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Slim
“opinions were law”
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Slim
“invited confidence without demanding it”
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Curley’s wife
“body flopped like a fish”
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Candy to Curley’s wife’s dead body
“God damn tramp” “lousy tart”
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Curley’s wife
“I get awful lonely”
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Curley’s wife about Curley
“i don’t like Curley” “Swell guy, ain’t he”
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Curley’s wife to Crooks, Lennie and Candy
“talkin’ to a bunch of bindlestiffs - a n\*\*\*\*\* an’ a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep” “left of the weak ones”
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George about Curley’s wife
“tramp” “bitch” “poison” “rat trap” “jailbait”
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Curley’s wife
“coulda been in the movies”
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Crooks
“retired into the terrible protective dignity of a n\*\*\*\*”
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Crooks
“seemed to grow smaller” “reduced himself to nothing.” “There was no personality, no ego”
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Curley’s wife
“Spends all his time sayin’ what he’s gonna do to guys he don’t like, and he don’t like nobody”
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