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  1. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
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  2. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    He's a nice fella," said Slim. "Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
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  3. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethin', he don't know whether it's right or not. He can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can't tell. He got nothing to measure by."
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  4. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.
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  5. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.
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  6. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus' som'thin' that was his. Som'thin' he could live on and there couldn't nobody throw him off of it.
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  7. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.
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  8. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.
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  9. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment.
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  10. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    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. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.
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  11. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.
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  12. John Steinbeck _ Of Mice and Men

    I seen it over an' over-a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. {...} George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all.
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