“You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.”
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 6, p. 101
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Of Mice and Men is a play adapted from John Steinbeck's 1937 novel of the same name. The play, which predates the Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Awards, earned the 1938 New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Play.
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
George; "buck" here means to work at lifting and throwing the sacks of barley
Of Mice and Men (1937)
“I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.”
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 4, p. 75
“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.”
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 4, p. 74
Context: 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.
“A powerful, big-stomached man came into the bunkhouse.”
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 2, p. 35
