| A | B |
|---|
| Curley | "You seen a girl around here?" he demanded angrily. |
| Curley's Wife | "If he [Curley] ain't here, I guess I better look some place else," _____ said playfully. |
| Candy | "Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kinda like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy." |
| Carlson | "Why'n't you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up? I can smell that dog a mile away." |
| George | "Lennie --if you jus' happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an' hide in the brush." |
| Lennie | "Le's go, George. Le's get outta here. It's mean here." |
| Crooks | " 'Cause I'm black. They play cards in here, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all stink to me." |
| 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."" |
