James Jones

Quotes

• “All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them "pin-...”
• “But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or T...”
• “Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying t...”
• “They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a little bit of it, it ...”
• “You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a ...”
• “...legal procedure has always tacitly been concerned with human relations, rather than abstract justice, and that conseq...”
• “Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he h...”
• “Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once...”
• “The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one ...”
• “All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that an...”
• “The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we wer...”
• “The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you co...”
• “...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the sam...”
• “It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over seve...”
• “He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.”
• “...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.”
• “It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.”
• “Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.”
• “Every man has a right to kill himself.”
• “I write to reach eternity”