The Long Fall Quotes

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, THE LONG FALL: A NOVEL

“Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192)”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“Let me speak to your boss" I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck on a biweekly basis. It's like winking at a leprechaun: he has to give up his pot of gold, and yet no one knows why.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“I became aware of recorded piano music. The composition had no style to it. It wasn’t jazz or classical or even elevator covers of pop tunes—just notes strung together in tight mathematical patterns with no heart.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“In order to be a good trainer you had to be a teacher, a counselor, a psychologist, and a”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“If the river were whiskey and I was a diving duck . . .”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“You don’t have to be smart to be tough-minded. As a matter of fact, the combination of stupidity and silence might be the greatest weapon in the history of our species.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“I had forgotten that Death was watching from all sides; that it comes at you from the place you least expect.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“THE AFTERNOON PASSED quietly enough. I logged onto the BBC website and perused the world, starting in Africa. I always start there, looking to see what the news providers of American TV didn’t deem important.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall