“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 goddam football game! You won't always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss"… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“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 neck, a fine, intelligent mouth that covered teeth so startling they might have been cleansed by sun gods. Without any makeup save lipstick, her complexion was as milk flecked with butter, the odor she cast as… — Frederick Exley Copy Share
“The world of the soap opera is the world of the Emancipated American Woman, a creature whose idleness is employed to no other purpose… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out. — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
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… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“Now I see in that laughter a good deal of desperation and sadness. About to leave the haven of our separate universities and be… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“There was a period when I lived on book reviews, when I had basked and drawn sustenance from what I deemed the light of… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“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… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“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… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“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… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“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… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
“Listening now, it occured to me that I hadn't come very far over the yars -- no farther really than from one "gang bang"… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
