"Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we……" — James Sallis
"Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s."
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James Sallis
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9 Quotes by James Sallis
James Sallis has 9 quotes on this site.
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Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.
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In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out…
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Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to…
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The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.
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Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge…
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Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together,…
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He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all…
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Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
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