Charles White > Charles's Quotes

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”
― Harry Crews, Blood and Grits

“Men were doomed to repeat the sins of not only their fathers, but all their ancient forbears on back to Cain. That was the true mark upon man, scripted in his very blood.”
― Charles Dodd White, Lambs of Men

“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.”
― Larry Brown

“If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours”
― James Jones, The Thin Red Line

“Next to music, beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The worse the author, the more he is known.”
― James Purdy

“If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.”
― Harry Crews

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”
― Jim Harrison

“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.”
― Mao Zedong

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse