Jack > Jack's Quotes

“What's legal isn't necessarily right and what's right, isn't necessarily legal”
― Jack July

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
― Miranda July

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“There is a genius in my head. I'm hoping to meet him one day”
― John Mitchell

“You can see I have no will to stay away from you, no tolerance to live without you.”
― Amanda Lance, Endangered Hearts

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in she wanted! If she could tolerate him, he would have donated to every stinking animal shelter in her name, quit his drinking habits completely, and played music for her anytime she wanted! He would have gone out, faced the cruel public, and embraced their scorn just to be close to her, continued to hide in the shadows of her life until she needed him…
If she had loved him, he would have done anything.”
― Amanda Lance, Natural Selection

“Capital Punishment is simply the disposal of a defective product. Nothing more and nothing less.”
― Robert M. Roberts

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room”
― Ani DiFranco