But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.

Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.