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Elmo had that inexplicable capacity to seem just a little more thoroughly alive than anyone else.
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“What rot, I could hear Brett say it. What rot! When you were with the English you got into the habit of using English expressions in your thinking. The English spoken language — the upper classes, anyway — must have fewer words than the Eskimo. Of course I didn’t know anything about the Eskimo. Maybe the Eskimo was a fine language. Say the Cherokee. I didn’t know anything about the Cherokee, either. The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything. I liked them, though. I liked the way they talked.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“Contact with other peoples is often represented as making inevitably for tolerance. But that is true only for those who have already been greatly educated to tolerance. The simple man everywhere is apt to see whatever differs from himself as an affront, a challenge, and a menace.”
― The Mind of the South
― The Mind of the South
“There are so goddamn many ways to be a fool a man can’t expect to avoid them all.”
― Dancing at the Rascal Fair
― Dancing at the Rascal Fair
“grew up with guns and I needed them. Most people don’t. All these high-capacity guns flashed by the nutcakes? They’re a disaster. If I had my way, there’d be no guns but single-shot hunting rifles and single-shot shotguns. You could do all the target shooting you want with those. You could hunt to your heart’s content. Of course, you’d actually have to learn how to hunt or how to hit a target, and most of those dimwits don’t want to be bothered.”
― The Investigator
― The Investigator
“He had no stomach for it,” Mrs. Johnson told me, “no heart for it; it wasn’t the war he wanted. The one he wanted was on poverty and ignorance and disease and that was worth putting your life into.”
(Page 249)”
― Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961-1973
(Page 249)”
― Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961-1973
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