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
“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
“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
“Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.” — James Jones Astronomy 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 had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.” — James Jones 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
“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
“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
“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
“He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.” — James Jones Honest man 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
“Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of… — James Jones Comfort 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
“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
“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
“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
War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul. — James Jones Dog Copy Share Image
“And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment she had become… — James Jones Calling 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
“Warden had a theory about women: For years he had been asking them to sleep with him, the ones that interested him.… — James Jones Life lessons 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 Music 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
