James Jones Quotes
- The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who…
- If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours
- War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.
- That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
- Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered…
- The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
- He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move…
- The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd…
- I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader,…