Ed Murray > Ed's Quotes

“I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words.”
― Jim Harrison, Off to the Side: A Memoir

“If you hate me it is because I have morals.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
― John Steinbeck

“You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.”
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust

“No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

“If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.”
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust

“All the things you needed to know in life—you didn’t learn them until you’d already made your decisions.”
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust

“I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis