Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life.
Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.
Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reached it, Curley bounced in.You seen a girl around here? he demanded angrily.George said coldly, 'Bout...
I’d think there are degrees of greatness, Adam said.I don’t think so, said Samuel. That would be like saying there is a little bigness. No. I believe when you come to that responsibility - that hugene...
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.
It was supposed that the pearl buyers were individuals acting alone, bidding against one another for the pearls the fishermen brought in. And once it had been so. But this was a wasteful method, for o...
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love. When a man comes to d...
If you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.[…] If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not...
I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.
I want to see the whole picture - as nearly as I can. I don’t want to put on the blinders of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, and limit my vision. If I used the term ‘good’ on a thing I’d lose my license to inspect...
I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after all the cape work when the bull tries to kill something that isn't there...
I think I love you, Cal. -AbraI'm not good. -CalBecause you're not good. -Abra
I think I can, Lee answered Samuel. I think this is the best-known story in the world because it is everybody’s story. I think it is the symbol story of the human soul. I’m feeling my way now—don’t ju...
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.
I hope I’m not so small-souled as to take satisfaction in being missed.
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utte...
I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.