George quotes Flashcards

(4 cards)

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Loneliness and companionship

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  1. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.”
  2. With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.”
  3. “I want you to stay with me, Lennie. Jesus Christ”
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American dream

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  1. “I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her.”
  2. “we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres”
  3. Stay in a cathouse
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Sacrifice

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  1. “I ain’t gonna let ‘em hurt Lennie. Now you listen. The guys might think I was in on it.”
  2. “Look acrost the river, Lennie, an’ I’ll tell you so you can almost see it.”
  3. “George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head.”
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relationship with lennie

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  1. I could live so easy
  2. take my fifty bucks
  3. damn near drowned
    4.
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