Quotes About Quote

And so if Cash nails the box up, she is not a rabbit.

If ever was such a misfortunate man," pa says.

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is already one. ~

The bells were ringing again, high in the scudding sunlight in bright disorderly tatters of sound.

We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it.

And you came home? To die. Yes. To die? Yes. To die.

Suicide iss just for the body," the German said. "The body settles nothing. It iss of no importance. It iss just to be kept clean when possible.

Shreve had a brush, so I didn't have to open the bag any more.

Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen.

She and I had survived long separations, and we had never been especially monogamous—she liked to quote Janis Joplin: Honey, get it while you can.

all writing worth reading comes, like suicide, from outrage or revenge

fragments of a conversation she had left a little earlier (on Rilke, not Rilke's poetry but Rilke the man, who refused to be psychoanalyzed for fear of purging his genius);

And someone said, —Nothing queer about Carruthers . . . to conclude, once for all, the story of that subaltern and his mare.

Maelcum a rude boy, said the other, an' a righteous tug pilot.

Fables from before the Anaheiming.

You can't get clever men to fight such a system, as it makes too much sense to 'em.

He sat on the bed for a long time, savoring the new thing, the treasure. Rage.

Whose apartment is this?" "Marisa's. I told you.

Berry," Pursley said, "you're in trouble, son. A cop. And an honest one. In trouble. In deep, spectacular, and, please, I have to say this, clearly heroic shit.

I can't unteach he six years of pity if you can't stand up to one tantrum.

I'm afraid I don't know her," he said, with the slight wince that came when you asked him about music that had come out since his own release. This always made Chia feel sorry for him, which she knew was ridiculous.

but Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not

And Willy Jude was amiable enough, but in about as content-free a way as possible.