--- title: "1 Smart and funny Quotes By Robert Stone" description: "1 Smart and funny quotes by Robert Stone. Plus more from Robert Stone and more Smart and funny sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a74/robert-stone-13495_big-city_there-were-icons-of-the-magdalen-on-the_140816.jpg" --- > [“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought, half hypnotized by the chanting in the room beside him; Mary Moe, Jane Doe, the girl from Migdal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/there-were-icons-of-the-magdalen-on-the-walls-and-paintings-in-the/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a74/robert-stone-13495_big-city_there-were-icons-of-the-magdalen-on-the_140816.jpg) ## More by Robert Stone > [I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-was-under-the-influence-of-the-early-modern-masters-fitzgerald-and/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [Life is a means of extracting fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/life-is-a-means-of-extracting-fiction/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/the-desires-of-the-heart-are-as-crooked-as-a-corkscrew/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to him .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/he-had-undertaken-a-little-assay-at-the-good-fight-and-found-that/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/how-learned-and-fine-we-believed-ourselves-to-be-how-shitty-of-the/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought, half hypnotized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/there-were-icons-of-the-magdalen-on-the-walls-and-paintings-in-the/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-write-a-very-rough-first-draft-of-every-chapter-then-i-rewrite/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-think-everybody-must-be-aware-that-this-society-is-a-whole-lot/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises. She imagined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/sleeping-and-waking-the-notion-of-being-lost-of-having-wandered-out/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-think-there-s-a-necessity-for-some-attachment-to-the-spiritual/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/like-many-visitors-they-had-been-unnerved-by-the-inimitable/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [“He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/he-sat-desiring-the-girl-a-speed-hardened-straw-colored-junkie/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [One does not consider style, because style is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/one-does-not-consider-style-because-style-is/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/if-you-couldn-t-tell-the-difference-between-what-hurt-and-what-didn-t/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) > [At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/at-the-time-acid-made-me-consider-questions-of-reality-the-difference/) [Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/smart-and-funny/robert-stone/#itemlist", "name": "1 Smart and funny Quotes By Robert Stone", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought, half hypnotized by the chanting in the room beside him; Mary Moe, Jane Doe, the girl from Migdal in Galilee turned hooker in the big city. The original whore with the heart of gold. 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