“Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody—to be near him.” He whined, “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,” he cried, “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
“A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethin', he don't know whether it's right or not. He can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can't tell. He got nothing to measure by.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
“They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
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