Jean Shepherd quotes
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“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
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“I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.”
-- Jean ShepherdSource : Jean Shepherd (2010). “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash”, p.118, Broadway Books
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“Manhattan cabs are born old.”
-- Jean ShepherdSource : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.78, Broadway Books
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“In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.”
-- Jean ShepherdSource : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.78, Broadway Books
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“A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.”
-- Jean ShepherdSource : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.11, Broadway Books
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“I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.”
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“Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.”
-- Jean ShepherdSource : "Fictional character: Ralphie as an Adult". "A Christmas Story", www.imdb.com. November 18, 1983.
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“The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.”
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“I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.”
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“Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.”
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“The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.”
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“There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.”
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“In God we trust; all others pay cash.”
-- Jean ShepherdSource : Jean Shepherd (1978). “The Phantom of the Open Hearth: A Film for Television Co-Ordinated by Leigh Brown”, Doubleday Books
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“Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.”
-- Jean ShepherdSource : Jean Shepherd (1983). “A Christmas Story: A Play in Two Acts”, p.34, Dramatic Publishing
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“The truth will always have a market.”
-- Jean ShepherdSource : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.7, Broadway Books
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