"Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks"
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Hopes, dreams and plans - George Chapter 1 - 2
"O.K. Someday—we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and—"
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Hopes, dreams and plans - Lennie Chapter 1 - 2
"An' live off the fatta the lan'," Lennie shouted. "An' have rabbits. Go on, George!"
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Hopes, dreams and plans - George Chapter 3 - 1
"Sure," said George. "All kin's a vegetables in the garden, and if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some milk. We'd jus' live there. We'd belong there."
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Hopes, dreams and plans - George Chapter 3 - 2
"No, sir, we'd have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house."
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Hopes, dreams and plans - Candy, George and Lennie Chapter 3 -1
"They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true."
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Hopes, dreams and plans - Crooks Chapter 4 - 1
"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them."
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Hopes, dreams and plans - Crooks Chapter 4 - 2
"They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it."
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Hopes, dreams and plans - Crooks Chapter 4 - 3
"… If you … guys would want a hand to work for nothing—just his keep, why I'd come an' lend a hand. I ain't so crippled I can't work like a son-of-a-***** if I want to."
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Hopes, dreams and plans - Crooks Chapter 4 - 4
"I didn' mean it. Jus' foolin'. I wouldn' want to go no place like that."
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Hopes, dreams and plans - George and Lennie Chapter 6 - 1
""George." "Yeah?" "I done another bad thing." "It don't make no difference," George said, and he fell silent again."
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Hopes, dreams and plans - George Chapter 1 - 1
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"Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks"
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