Patrick deWitt Quotes

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• Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff…
• Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like…
• I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
• I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.
• I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between…
• This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling…
• We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.
• I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It…
• Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
• ...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that…
• I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.
• Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a…
• ...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant…
• ...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.
• I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?
• Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been…
• We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after…
• He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.
• Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.
• Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with…

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