Quotes from Harold Robbins

The fierce pride I had in my being was hurt by the slow disintegration of his own.

Say something nice about somebody and nobody will listen. Make it mean, malicious, scandalous and everybody in town will help you spread the word.

there is no sorrow that love does not precede.

got to my feet and stretched. This sitting at a desk for half a day was worse than anything I'd ever done. "O.K., I'll go right up." McAllister

I thought so too," he said, shaking his head, "but now I don't know. I had hoped that by working with the people, we would forget the old animosities and differences. That's the only way for us to get along: by working together in a common effort. That way we'd get to know each other and understand that each of us are looking for the same thing. Then we wouldn't have any differences.

But he was wrong. Mr. Ford had the one unforgivable vice. He was intolerant.

Kids are a pain in the ass.

Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Every man has his price. For some it's money, for some it's women, for others glory. But the honest man you don't have to buy - he winds up costing you nothing.

People are not like a business. You can't buy and sell them like so much property. You can't lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

She's been brought up without love and has no understanding of it.

It was either live in the shadow of the fear all our lives or, once and for all, break free of it and have all the things we wanted. That was the whole of it. We had to be free of the fear so that we could think of tomorrow, a tomorrow we had been afraid to look into because it looked so much like yesterday.

Funny how you can go along for years hardly thinking about someone, then all of a sudden be so glad to see him.

But, darling, you're my world, my life." She kissed me. "And what will you do? You have no job—nothing. How will you live? I can't bear to think of you going back to those cheap little jobs. Here with me you are safe. I can look after you, protect you. I can give you the world—anything you want." I remembered something I had read. "What does it profit a man," I quoted, "if in gaining the world he loses his own soul?

Friends are more than just people who will listen to what you have to say and agree with you. Sometimes they have to tell you things you don't want to hear for your own sake. Please listen to what we have to say.

I think I'll be moving on tomorrow," she said. "What for? Got anything better to do?" She shook her head. "No. But this isn't my bag. You know that. These cars don't make any noise." "Someday all cars won't make noise," he said.

I don't really care whether I live that long or not, It's just that when I die, I dont want to leave any enemies, and I figure the only way to do that is to outlive them all.

Jerry looked at me and then laughed. Jerry was no dunce. He knew what was on my mind. Jerry was a strange friend. He wasn't an easy one to make friends with; neither was he stuck-up. He was just—particular. I don't know why he liked me, but if I could see far enough ahead, if I could only have known what Jerry and I—but we'll get to it when we get to it. It's bad enough we can look back and remember; it would be a lot worse if we knew what was coming.

The reality of living was never greater than when you held death clutched tightly in your hands.

Don't let him grow up as I did. Sheltered and clothed and fed and cared for, and yet poorer in human qualities than the poorest of men. A man needs more than food and clothes and money to make him human. He needs love and kindness and affection. He needs people, a family, to give him an anchor, to give him roots in the earth, in society, to teach him the true values in the world. The

I worked in the mines beside you, and once you work in the mines you never stop bein' a miner, no matter what else you do.

there. Maybe it didn't come yet. I couldn't