Quotes
You watch your place, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny.
p. 80
Well, God knows he don't need any brains to buck barley bags. But don't you try to put nothing over, Milton. I got my eye on you.
His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
p. 36
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.
p. 41
I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
p. 75
What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no pants rabbits.
p. 20
You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
p. 101
"Well, that glove's fulla vaseline."
"Vaseline? What the hell for?"
"Well, I tell ya what — Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife."
p. 29
A powerful, big-stomached man came into the bunkhouse.
p. 35
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.
p. 74
We could live offa the fatta the lan’.
p. 57
Ain't many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
p. 35
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody — to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
p. 72
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