“He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop.” — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who… — James T. Farrell Ballroom Copy Share Image
“All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.” — James T. Farrell Change Copy Share Image
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you. — James T. Farrell Psychology Copy Share Image
“He thought of how when you went out and listened to what people said, you heard all kinds of things, people washing… — James T. Farrell Business Copy Share Image
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. — James T. Farrell America Copy Share Image
“He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists.… — James T. Farrell Freedom Copy Share Image
“He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old… — James T. Farrell Doomed Copy Share Image
“They served the rich, and tried to think that they were rich.” — James T. Farrell Money Copy Share Image
Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand. — James T. Farrell Life Copy Share Image
“So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a… — James T. Farrell Patriotism Copy Share Image
In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who… — James T. Farrell Avenues Copy Share Image
“He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked… — James T. Farrell Old man Copy Share Image
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass… — James T. Farrell Approach Copy Share Image
Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet… — James T. Farrell Bathroom Copy Share Image
