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Cards (24)

  • "He was a jerkin skinner, the prince of the ranch" 

    Slim
  • "Why can't I talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely."

    Curley's Wife - Loneliness
  • "his authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love"

    Slim
  • "we could live offa the fatta the lan"

    Lennie - Dreams
  • "I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny."

    Curley's wife, Crooks - Racism, power
  • "And I get to tend the rabbits" ... Lennie giggled with happiness
    Lennie - Dreams
  • "a rat-trap if I ever seen one" (George to Lennie)

    Curley's wife - Sexism, prejudice
  • "we'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. and when it rans in the winter, ... we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it an' listen to the rain comin' down on the roof"

    Lennie - Dreams
  • "He says he was gonna put me in the movies... soon he's got back to Hollywood, he was gonna write to me about it"

    Curley's wife - Dreams
  • "I seen 'em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be." (George to Lennie)

    Curley's wife - Sexism, prejudice
  • "no Lennie. I ain't mad. I ain't ever been mad, an' I ain't now"

    Lennie, George - friendship
  • "You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley."

    Curley's wife - Loneliness
  • "you do bad things and I got to get you out"

    Lennie, George - friendship
  • "guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"

    Lennie, George - Loneliness
  • "She had full rouged lips." "red mules with little bouquets of red ostrich feathers"

    Curley's wife
  • "a guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody"

    Crooks - Loneliness
  • " I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup."

    Candy - friendship, loneliness
  • "you got no right to come in my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me"

    Crooks - racism, power
  • " I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog."

    Candy - friendship
  • "he moved into the room, and he moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen" 

    Slim
  • "you an' me can get that little place, can't we, George"

    Candy - loneliness, friendship
  • "When they can me here I wish't somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs."
    Candy
  • "because I got you to look after me, an' you got me to look after you" (Lennie to George)

    Lennie, George - Friendship, Loneliness
  • "Old swamper"

    Candy