I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive? When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so deli...
He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?
He lived in a strange, silent house and looked out of it through calm eyes. He was a stranger to all the world, but he was not lonely.
He is one of those whom God has not quite finished.
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
For it is said that humans are neversatisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has a...
For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.
For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in wh...
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.
Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter...
Do you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that thinking of a friend and meeting him are connected. But does thinking draw him or his com...
By whipping himself he protected himself against whipping by someone else.
But you said you did not love our father. How can you have faith in him if you didn’t love him?Maybe that’s the reason, Adam said slowly, feeling his way. Maybe if I had loved him I would have been je...
But George sat stiffly on the bank and looked at his right hand that had thrown the gun away. The group burst into the clearing, and Curley was ahead. He saw Lennie lying on the sand. Got him, by God....