The Big Clock Quotes

“She was blond as hell, wearing a lot of black.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“The awfulness of Monday mornings is the world's greatest common denominator. To the millionaire and the coolie it is the same, because there can be nothing worse.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“He threw the shot of whisky into his mouth and I don't believe the glass even touched his lips.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“What we decided in this room, more than a million of our fellow-citizens would read three months from now, and what they read they would accept as final.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“Character": Eccentric, impractical. A pronounced drunk.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“The awfulness of Monday morning is the world's great common denominator.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“I called up Georgette, and made a date to meet her for dinner that evening at the Van Barth. She sounded extra gay, though I couldn't imagine why. I was the only member of the family who knew what it meant to go all the way through life and come out of it alive.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“I sipped my own, knowing again that everything in the world was ashes. Cold, and spent, and not quite worth the effort.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“Such was the headquarters of Janoth Enterprises. Bureaus in twenty-one large cities at home and twenty-five abroad fed this nerve-center daily and hourly. It was served by roving correspondents and by master scientists, scholars, technicians in every quarter of the world. It was an empire of intelligence.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock

“I mean, well, really, it seems to me, when I think about it, sometimes, you were much happier, and so was I, when we had the roadhouse. Weren't we? For that matter, it was a lot more fun when you were a race-track detective. Heavens, even the all-night broadcasting job. It was crazy, but I liked it.”
― Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock