War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul. — James Jones Dog Copy Share Image
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. — James Jones Honest Copy Share Image
If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will… — James Jones Eye Copy Share Image
“Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.” — James Jones Talent Copy Share Image
“He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.” — James Jones Honest Copy Share Image
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. — James Jones Character Copy Share Image
“He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.” — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.” — James Jones Astronomy Copy Share Image
“It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and… — James Jones Knife-fights Copy Share Image
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big,… — James Jones Always Copy Share Image
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of… — James Jones Compulsion Copy Share Image
“The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you… — James Jones Hint Copy Share Image
I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying. — James Jones About Copy Share Image
“All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger… — James Jones Anger Copy Share Image
The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we… — James Jones Change the world Copy Share Image
You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a… — James Jones About Copy Share Image
“Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he… — James Jones Death Copy Share Image
“All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They… — James Jones Army Copy Share Image
“This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and WARFARE; may they never cease… — James Jones Books Copy Share Image
“They were like two philosophers starting from the same initial premise of life and each, by irrefutable argument, arriving at a diametrically… — James Jones Life Copy Share Image
“Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying… — James Jones Connection Copy Share Image
“You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like… — James Jones Religion Copy Share Image
“So a new element darkled in their already darkling mood: a somber, deep-rooted bitterness which would grow and grow until it would… — James Jones Anger Copy Share Image
“They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a little bit of it, it… — James Jones Democracy Copy Share Image
“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not… — James Jones Death Copy Share Image
He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself… — James Jones Bottom Copy Share Image
“He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not… — James Jones Army Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed… — James Jones Algebra Copy Share Image
“There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very… — James Jones Army Copy Share Image
“I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it." "I know it," Prew… — James Jones Army Copy Share Image
“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not… — James Jones Every man Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very sure source of personal knowledge again,… — James Jones Every man Copy Share Image
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For… — James Jones About Copy Share Image
“How about when I get to work, there was a note attached to a new chair at my desk saying" If you… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“I've owned a thousand houses that I've never built," she said. "Never had the money to build. Couldn't have used if I… — James Jones Home Copy Share Image
“Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitterly, call it From… — James Jones Book Copy Share Image
“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home,… — James Jones Dead end Copy Share Image
