“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
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
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
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
“And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nurse talking to a… — James Jones Friendship Copy Share Image
“Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.” — James Jones Writing Copy Share Image
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody… — James Jones Changed 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
“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
“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
“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
“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain… — James Jones Army 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. — James Jones Honest Copy Share Image
“One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary.… — James Jones Boxing Copy Share Image
“I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its male smell, allowing… — James Jones Gender-politics 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
