Fra Of Mice and Men:

«Where we goin’, George?»
The little man jerked down the brim of his hat and scowled over at Lennie. «So you forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you’re a crazy bastard!»
«I forgot,» Lennie said softly. «I tried not to forget. Honest to God I did, George.»
«O.K. – O.K. I’ll tell ya again. I ain’t got nothing to do. Might jus’ as well spen’ all my time tellin’ you things and then you forget ‘em, and I tell you again.»
«Tried and tried,» said Lennie, «blut it didn’t do no good. I remember abourt the rabbits, George.»

Fra The Moon is Down:

Captain Loft thought and believed that a soldier is the highest development of animal life. If he considered God at all, he thought of Him as an old and honored general, retired and gray, living among remembered battles and putting wreathes on the graves of his lieutenants several times a year.

Fra Cannery Row

Socially Mack and the boys were beyond the pale. Sam Malloy didn’t speak to them as they went by the boiler. They drew into themselves and no one could foresee how they would come out of the cloud. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism – either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

Fra The Moon is Down:

[Colonel]Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knew – that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at least it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.