12 quotes found
“It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”
“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
“If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.”
“...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.”
“He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.”
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Not...”
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and ...”
“Leave! Hazel Motes cried. Go ahead and leave! The truth dont matter to you. Listen, he said, pointing his finger at the rest of them, the truth dont matter to you. If Jesus had redeemed you, what d...”
“That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.”
“His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he managed to answer that no priest taking orders from no pope was going to tamper with his soul. The...”
“Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.”
“That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.”
