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„All our words from loose using have lost their edge.“
„Well, I know what I have to do, so it is simple. Duty is a wonderful thing. I do not know what I should have done without duty since young Tom died. You could have painted, he told himself. Or you could have done something useful. Maybe, he thought. Duty is simpler.This is useful, he thought. Do not think against it. It helps to get it over with. That’s all we are working for. Christ knows what there is beyond that.“
„This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.“
„Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.“
„Miss Mary, having been a journalist, had splendid powers of invention. I had never heard her tell a story in the same way twice and always had the feeling she was remolding it for the later editions.“
„I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.“
„Red Dog smiled. ‘I would like you to meet my friends Mr Sitting Bull, Mr Poisoned Buffalo, and Chief Running Skunk-Backwards.”Sitting Bull’s a name I know,’ Yogi remarked, shaking hands.’Oh, I’m not one of those Sitting Bulls,’ Mr Sitting Bull said.“
„All good books have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.“
„Now Tom was – the hell with that, he said to himself. It is something that happens to everybody. I should know about that by now. It is the only thing that is really final, though.How do you know that? he asked himself. Going away can be final. Walking out the door can be final. Any form of real betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.“
„To be a successful father … there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.“
„Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.“
„All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.“
„Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.“
„Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.“
„You did not do so badly for something that is worthless. But there was a time when I could not find you.“
„Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.“
„I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.“
„But are there not many Fascists in your country?”There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes’.“
„You write a book like that that you’re fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it’s like pissing in your father’s beer.“
„Being against evil doesn’t make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself.“
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