21 quotes found
“Hes America in action opposed to quality.”
“He’s America in action — opposed to quality.”
“There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.”
“But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.”
“Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.”
“And yet Curts a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, thats all.”
“All you need do, Bernie,she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, is present the truth as fiction.”
“Curt, my husband, is a writer, and hell never write again. Thats our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, youre married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who cou...”
“The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping whos...”
“She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.”
“Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.”
“If the books bad enough, theyll publish it, and if its bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and itll sell.”
“I have wrote my name in hell, Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.”
“My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we wont need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world ...”
“Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.”
“He stood there, his eyes like they had been before. Their beauty stabbed at her heart like a great knife; the hair looked so like she had just pressed the wet comb to it and perhaps put a little po...”
“All you need do, Bernie,”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.”
“If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.”
“And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.”
“Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he’ll never write again. That’s our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, you’re married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who ...”
