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What man I dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves shall never tremble.

Over hill, over dale,    Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale,    Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere,

Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted

Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny. Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego—nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, Yes, ma’am, and his voice was toneless.

To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

Let's hang ourselves immediately!

I was actually going out of the hospital with two whores on a fishing boat; I had to keep saying it over and over to myself to believe it.

But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.

What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?

This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I seen it over an' over-a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference.

Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.

They are in contact on a high-voltage wavelength of hate...

Crooks avoided the whole subject now. Maybe you guys better go, he said. I ain’t sure I want you in here no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if he don’t like ’em.

I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?

I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.

I'm frightend. Of us. I want to go home. O God I to go home." "It's was an accident," said Piggy stubbornly,"and that's that." He touched Ralph's bare shoulder and Ralph shuddered at the human contact.