Of Mice and Men

Book · 4 characters · 413 quotes · 1937

Quotes from Of Mice and Men

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"I ain't gonna let 'em hurt you, Lennie"
George Milton
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"I could live so easy and so nice if I didn't have you on my tail"
George Milton
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"S'pose they don't want to let me tend the rabbits"
Lennie Small Fear
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"Tend the rabbits, George. I'll tend 'em"
Lennie Small Dreams
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"Lennie, for God's sake don't drink so much"
George Milton
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"I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we'd never do her"
George Milton Hope
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"I ain't got no people. I ain't got nobody in the world that gives a damn about me"
Candy
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"If you do bad things, I'll leave you alone and let a mean person hurt you"
George Milton
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"An' live off the fatta the lan'"
Lennie Small Dreams
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"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"
George Milton Solitude
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"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"
George Milton Friendship
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"All the guys go to that place, but it ain't nice"
Candy Truth
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"I'll jus' take my things an' go off in the hills"
Lennie Small Fear
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"You can't keep a dead mouse in your pocket"
George Milton Wisdom
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"Lennie broke it...he always does..."
George Milton
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"I done a bad thing. I done a real bad thing"
Lennie Small
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"We're gonna have a little house an' a couple of acres an' a cow an' some pigs..."
George Milton Dreams
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"The boss gives the grain an' a little hay, an' you can sleep right there in the barn"
Curley's wife Work
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"S'pose there was a carnival or a circus come to town..."
Lennie Small Imagination
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"I ain't mad. I ain't never been mad"
George Milton Peace
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"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"
Candy Solitude
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"I got you to look after me, an' you got me to look after you"
George Milton Friendship
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"A guy talkin' about his own place an' house an' chickens an' vegetables..."
Lennie Small Dreams
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"An' then we'd live like real rich guys"
Lennie Small
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"It jus' ain't no good any more"
George Milton
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"We was gonna have our little house"
George Milton Dreams
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"What the hell is Lennie doin'"
George Milton
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"Lennie shouldn't go to no institutions. He belongs with me"
George Milton
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"I'm gonna get my gun and I'm gonna get him"
Curley's wife
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"When they find out what I done, they gonna hunt me"
George Milton Fear