James Crumley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows. -- Dancing Bear”
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“Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.”
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“There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.”
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“I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk”
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“I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.”
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“Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again”
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“I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.”
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“...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.”
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“When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.”
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“I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times.”
-- James Crumley
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