Of Mice And Men

George Milton

• If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job and work no trouble
• Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world
• But you ain't gonna get in no trouble, because if you do, I won't let you tend the rabbits
• You always forget and I gotta talk you out of it. Now we got to be careful.
• They get mean. They get wanting to fight all the time

Lennie Small

• Hell of a nice fella, but he ain't bright
• I got you to look after me and you got me to look after you
• I get to tend the rabbits
• He's jes like a kid
• Geroge, why is it both ends the same?
• Why do you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice
• I like to pet nice things with my fingers
• I tried, Aunt Clara, ma'am. I tried and tried. I couldn' help it

Curleys Wife

• She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes heavily made up
• I'm looking for Curley
• Jesus, what a tramp
• I never seen no piece of jail-bait worse that her
• She's gonna make a mess
• They left all the weak ones here
• I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely
• And all the meanness and the plannings and the discontent were gone from her face. She was very pretty and very simple and her face was sweet and young
• She caught the dead scent of Curley's wife...she whimpered and cringed to the packing box

Crooks

• Ya see the stable buck's a ******
• stable buck..ooh sta-able buck!
• His body was bent...by his crooked spine
• his lean face was lined
• he had thin, pain tightened lips
• Crook was a proud, aloof man
• if i say something, why, it's just a ****** saying it
• Every damn one of ems got a little pieces of land in his head
• I coul get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny
• Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. He had no personl;aity, no ego - nothing to arouse either like or dislike.
• A guy gets too lonely an he gets sick

Candy

• I been around him so much I never notice how he stinks
• Awright, take 'im
• I could cook and tend the chickens and *** the garden
• When they can me I wish'd somebody'd shoot me
• I won't have no place to go
• I think i knowed we'd never do her (the dream)
• You ain't no good now you lousy tart

Curley

• He hates big guys...kind of like he's mad at em because he ain't a big guy
• Glove fulla vaseline
• You seen a girl around here?
• An' Curley's apnts is just crawlin' with ants
• This punk sure had it coming to him. But - Jesus - he ain't hardly got no hand left
• I'll kill the big son of a ***** myself. I'll shoot 'im in the guts.

Slim

• He moves with a majesty only achieved by royalty
• The prince of the ranch
• His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject
• His hatchet face was ageless
• His ear heard more than was said to him
• Maybe ever'body in the whole darn world is scared of each other
• One lean finger touched her cheek...fingers explored her neck
• Never mind. A guy got to sometimes.