Jeff > Jeff's Quotes

“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
― Woody Guthrie

“You can't make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious.”
― Ron Burns

“Drinking just to get drunk is like having sex just to get pregnant.
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― Robert Hess

“David Goodis didn’t write novels, he wrote suicide notes.”
― Ed Gorman

“The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.”
― Jim Thompson, Texas by the Tail

“Nothing matters in this goddamned lunatic asylum of a world but dough.”
― William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

“What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world?”
― William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

“She looked like a vixen, and that’s what she was; she had all the instincts of a female fox. She was the proverbial predatory female. She had what she wanted, now, and she was content. There was just the getting completely away with it that counted.”
― Gil Brewer, Sin for Me

“Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on.”
― Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?