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Quotes About Companionship

Now what the hell do you suppose is eatin' them two guys?
~ John Steinbeck
He ain't no cuckoo," said George. "He's dumb as hell, but he ain't crazy. An' I ain't so bright neither, or I wouldn't be buckin' barley for my fifty and found.
~ John Steinbeck
Kitaplar bir halta yaramaz. İnsan?n birine ihtiyac? vard?r, birine yak?n olmak ister. İnler gibi devam etti. Kimsesi yoksa delirir insan. Kim olduÄŸu hiç önemli deÄŸildir, yeter ki yan?nda biri olsun. inan?n bana, insan fazla yaln?z kald? m?, hastalan?r.
~ John Steinbeck
He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.
~ John Steinbeck
Guys like us are the loneliest in the world. No family. No place where we belong. Nothing to look forward to. We're different, we have a future. We have someone who gives a damn about us. I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you and that's why.
~ John Steinbeck
And then the men lay down and put their heads in the girls' laps and looked up into their faces. And they smiled at each other, a tired and peaceful and wonderful secret.
~ John Steinbeck
Will you have a touch of ng-ka-py?" "You mean the drink that tastes of good rotten apples?" "Yes. I can talk better with it." "Maybe I can listen better," said Samuel.
~ John Steinbeck
We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us.
~ John Steinbeck
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody to be near him
~ John Steinbeck
Some men there are who go down the dismal wrack of soldiering, surrender themselves, and become faceless. But these had not much face to start with. And maybe you're like that. But there are others who go down, submerge in the common slough, and then rise more themselves than they were, because—because they have lost a littleness of vanity and have gained all the gold of the company and the regiment.
~ John Steinbeck
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
~ John Steinbeck
And I get to tend the rabbits…Lennie giggled with happiness.
~ John Steinbeck
Here we sit," he began at last. "—broken-hearted," Pilon added rhythmically.
~ John Steinbeck
Slim, Buna mecburdun George, dedi. BaÅŸka hiçbir çaren yoktu. Hadi gel benimle. George'u kolundan tutup anayola ç?kan patikaya doÄŸru götürdü. Curley ile Carlson onlar?n arkas?ndan bakt?lar. Carlson Yahu, dedi, nedir bu heriflerin derdi?
~ John Steinbeck
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
~ John Steinbeck
We each peeled a stick and solemnly chewed it; it was Beeman's peppermint, and nothing so delicious has been made since.
~ John Steinbeck
They were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.
~ John Steinbeck
Juana, glancing secretly at him, saw him smile. And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him. And they began this day with hope.
~ John Steinbeck
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.' 1 That's part of her.
~ John Steinbeck
I thought my blood must survive—my line—but it's not so. My knowledge, yes—the long knowledge remembered, repeated, the pride, yes, the pride and warmth, Mordeen, warmth and companionship and love so that the loneliness we wear like icy clothes is not always there. These I can give.
~ John Steinbeck
a damn about us. We don't have to sit-in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us." Lennie broke in. "But not us! An' why? Because . . . . because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." He laughed delightedly. "Go on now, George!
~ John Steinbeck
A guy needs somebody—to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
~ John Steinbeck
A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
~ John Steinbeck
You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs.
~ John Steinbeck