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Summary Key Quotations: 'Of Mice and Men'
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All key quotations from George Orwell's 'Of Mice and Men'
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Key Quotations in ‘Of Mice and Men’Loneliness
‘Well, I could, I could go off in the hills there. Some place I'd find a cave’- p30
‘Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world’- p32
‘With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got someone who gives a damn about us’- p32
[George and Lennie have each other; separates them from everyone else]
‘But not us! An’ why? Because… because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and
that's why’- p33
[Lennie and George have each other: won’t become lonely and miserable like the others]
‘A guy on a ranch don’t never listen nor he don’t ask no questions’- p45
[Suggests people don’t trust each other/ keep to themselves and don’t share anything about themselves]
‘Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy’
[Companionship was rare and not understood]
‘I seen a guy nearly go crazy with loneliness’- p109
‘I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick’- p105
‘A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody’- p105
‘Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody’- p122
‘He embraced his knees and laid his chin on his knees’- p141
‘Why can’t I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely’- p122
‘You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley’- p123
‘I ain't I got a right to talk to nobody’- p124
‘It’s just talking. It’s just bein’ with another guy. That’s all’- p103
‘Hardly none of the guys ever travel together. I hardly never seen two guys travel together’- p65
Prejudice
‘Jesus, what a tramp’
‘So that’s what Curley picks for a wife’
‘I never seen no piece of jailbait worse than her’
, ‘Don’t you even take a look at that bitch’
‘She was standing in the doorway showin’ her legs’
‘She’s a rattrap if I ever seen one’- p54
‘They play cards in there, but I can't play because I’m black’- p100
‘S’pose you couldn’t go into the bunk house to play rummy ‘cause you was black. How’d you like that?’-
p105
‘They let the n- come in last night’- p41
‘Nice fella, too’- p41
‘Got books in his room’- p41
[Crooks sleeps in a separate room]
‘Wait’ll you see Curley’s wife’- p49
[Never referred to by her name]
‘Well- she got the eye’
‘I seen her give Slim the eye’- p49
‘An’ I’ve seen her give Carlson the eye’- p50
‘Well, I think Curley’s married a tart’- p50
‘She got the eye going all the time on everybody. I bet she even gives the stable buck the eye’- p78
‘Andy’s in San Quentin right now on account of a tart’- p83
‘That dog ain’t no good to himself. I wisht somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a cripple’- p72
‘A little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn’
‘Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw’
‘Crooks had his apple box over his bunk, and in it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the
horses’- p98
‘I got a right to have a light’- p100
‘But I know now’- p102
‘Crooks said irritably’- p107
‘They left all the weak ones here’- p110
‘Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?’-
p110
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