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> [“Listening now, it occured to me that I hadn't come very far over the yars -- no farther really than from one "gang bang" to another, save that I had learned, as B. had yet to learn, that tomorrow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/listening-now-it-occured-to-me-that-i-hadn-t-come-very-far-over-the/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

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## More by Frederick Exley

> [“Bunny Sue was nineteen. She had honey-bobbed hair and candid, near-insolent green eyes. She had a snub, delightful nose, a cool, regal, and tapering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/bunny-sue-was-nineteen-she-had-honey-bobbed-hair-and-candid-near/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“The world of the soap opera is the world of the Emancipated American Woman, a creature whose idleness is employed to no other purpose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/the-world-of-the-soap-opera-is-the-world-of-the-emancipated-american/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/in-football-a-man-was-asked-to-do-a-difficult-and-brutal-job-and-he/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/i-wanted-to-lie-hour-after-hour-on-a-couch-pouring-out-the-dark/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“Now I see in that laughter a good deal of desperation and sadness. About to leave the haven of our separate universities and be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/now-i-see-in-that-laughter-a-good-deal-of-desperation-and-sadness/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“There was a period when I lived on book reviews, when I had basked and drawn sustenance from what I deemed the light of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/there-was-a-period-when-i-lived-on-book-reviews-when-i-had-basked-and/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/unlike-some-men-i-had-never-drunk-for-boldness-or-charm-or-wit-i-had/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“Whether or not I am a writer,” I wrote, “I have—and this is both my curse and my virtue—cultivated the instinct of one, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/whether-or-not-i-am-a-writer-i-wrote-i-have-and-this-is-both-my-curse/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“Mr. Blue's way of death was fitting. He had been utterly corrupted by America, and I find it proper that his carotid artery should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/mr-blue-s-way-of-death-was-fitting-he-had-been-utterly-corrupted-by/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“Whenever I think of the man I was in those days, cutting across the nat-cropped grass of the campus, burdened down by the weight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/whenever-i-think-of-the-man-i-was-in-those-days-cutting-across-the/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“I certainly didn't want to fight with him. I did, however, want to shout, "Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/i-certainly-didn-t-want-to-fight-with-him-i-did-however-want-to-shout/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“Listening now, it occured to me that I hadn't come very far over the yars -- no farther really than from one "gang bang"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/listening-now-it-occured-to-me-that-i-hadn-t-come-very-far-over-the/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“Then he lost all coherence and began a hysterical giggle, compounded with a slight twitch and very pronounced emission of saliva from his mouth.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/then-he-lost-all-coherence-and-began-a-hysterical-giggle-compounded/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

> [“That my lunacy had been recognized was chastening enough, but the judge's gratuitous "fatuous" carried with it intimations that I was in a blubbering,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-exley/that-my-lunacy-had-been-recognized-was-chastening-enough-but-the/)

[Frederick Exley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-exley/)

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