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'I see hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, (...) 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."

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"She turned on him in scorn. 'Listen, Nigger,' she said. 'You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?'"

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"'George gonna wish he was alone an', not have me botherin' him.' He turned his head and looked at the bright mountain tops. 'I can go right off there an' find a cave,' he said."

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"'I get lonely,' she said. 'You can talk to people, but I can't talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad. How'd you like not to talk to anybody?'"

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"Well, a show come through an I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show. But my ol' lady wouldn' let me. (...) If I'd went, I wouldn't be living like this, you bet."

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"'Jesus, what a tramp,' he said. 'So that's what Curley picks for a wife.'

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"If you want me to, I'll put the old devil out of his misery right now and get it over with. Ain't nothing left for him. Can't eat, can't see' can't even walk without hurtin'"

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"Curley's wife moved away from him a little. 'I think you're nuts,' she said.

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"Bil had one of them books that just come. He was lookin' in it and he says, 'I wrote a letter. Wonder if they put it in the book!' But it wasn't there. Bill says, 'Maybe they're savin' it for later.' An' that's just what they done. There it is."

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"Hardly none of the guys ever travel together. You know how the hands are, they just come in and get their bunk and work a month, and then they quit and go out alone. Never seem to give a damn about nobody."

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"An' I ain't so bright neither, or I wouldn't be buxkin' barley for my fifty and found. If I was bright, if I was even a little bit smart, I'd have my own little place an' I'd be bringin' in my my own crops, 'stead of doin' all the work and not getting what comes up out of the ground."

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"'An' live off the fatta the lan', Lennie shouted. 'An' have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that George.'"

Their dream is almost like lennie's bedtime story, it's rather a fantasy than something that will ever become a reality. It is what drives them forward, but they will probably never reach it

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"'Sure we will,' George said sleepily. "Red and blue and green rabbits, Lennie. Million of 'em.'"

George says this just to please Lennie, as he knows for a fact that these types of rabbits don't exist, and he also knows that their dream will likely never come true

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' "…You go on get outta my room. I ain’t wanted in the bunk house, and you ain’t wanted in my room."
"Why ain’t you wanted?" Lennie asked. "’Cause I’m black…" '

Here we really see how Crooks is being isolated by the group because of their prejudices against him

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"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to."

It is so lonely for a man on a ranch, loneliness is even worse than poverty, so lennie and george are better off even if they are poor because they have each other

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Slim looked through George and beyond him. "Ain't many guys travel around together," he mused. "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."

Why don't more men travel together if it's so great? It seems more dangerous to be alone, but maybe in the end, that's the safer option.

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"They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true." Candy's help and money might help them actually accomplish their dream

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"Got a'mighty if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble." George considers how much easier his life would be without lennie

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Curley's wife talks about her dream "Well, a show come through an I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show. But my ol' lady wouldn' let me. (...) If I'd went, I wouldn't be living like this, you bet."

This shows how most people used to have dreams that rarely came true

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"With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us." George and Lennie are constantly telling each other that they are special, that somehow their dreams will come true even if no one else's do