A Good Day to Die Quotes

“In Ecuador the Indian mate was too poor to buy Polaroid glasses but he saw the caudal fins of marlin long before my perfect eyes noticed anything. Benny played pool as if the cue stick emerged from his body. Not my alcohol & geometry. She was an asshole and I couldn't have loved her at gunpoint.”
― Jim Harrison, A Good Day to Die

“And watching the others now through the sweet blur of whiskey I began to realize just how tenative my interest in life itself was - I did not qualify even as an observer let alone a pilgrim. Or to make it tiresome, I was not out in the stands watching or in the field playing, I was down in some sub-basement regarding the whole base structure indifferently. My friends no longer existed, neither did my wife; I had no state or country, no governor or president. We used to call such people nihilists but that is much too strong a word for a vacuum. But the juice still seemed to be there, no matter how narrowed and atrophied. . .The brain seems to make its own little governments, The project was only a novelty, some sort of Coronation Ball.”
― Jim Harrison, A Good Day to Die

“And watching the others now through the sweet blur of whiskey I began to realize just how tenative my interest in life itself was - I did not qualify even as an observer let alone a pilgrim. Or to make it tiresome, I was not out in the stands watching or in the field playing, I was down in some sub-basement regarding the whole base structure indifferently. My friends no longer existed, neither did my wife; I had no state or country, no governor or president. We used to call such people nihilists but that is much too strong a word for a vacuum. But the juice still seemed to be there, no matter how narrowed and atrophied. . .The brain seems to make its own little governments, The project was only a novelty, some soty of Coronation Ball.”
― Jim Harrison, A Good Day to Die

“Frank looked like a criminal turkey, gaunt and sallow. In ages past he would have been described as "craven"; I had begun to think of many of the crackers as Englishmen, say from the eighteenth century, with generations of bad diet and the sort of line breeding that causes a genetic horror show in domestic animals. Southness. Somehow a warmer sort than the North owns but oddly more potentiality for meanness. All the chancre is open to the air with much of its imagination loosed from the prospect of making money thus more inventive and mischievous. In the North Frank would have kept busy in the Buick plant in Flint and his income would be a small fortune in Harlan County, Kentucky.”
― Jim Harrison, A Good Day to Die

“were collectively less charming than a drunken bowling team.”
― Jim Harrison, A Good Day to Die