He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
He had said, I am a man, and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and halfgod
He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.
Hazel grew up - did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn't learn a thing in either place. Reform schools are supposed to teach viciousness and criminality but Hazel didn...
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
Go through the motions, Adam. What motions? Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no fam...
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has...
Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. The...
Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom.
Do you know that i paid two dollars for [Doxocology] thirty-three years ago? Everything was wrong with him, hoofs like flapjacks, a hock so thick and short and straight there seems no joint at all. he...
Dear Pat,You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, ‘Why don’t you make something for me?’I asked you what you wanted, and you said, ‘A box.’‘What for?’‘To put thing...
Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.
And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in between anywhere.
And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.Because he loved true things, he tried to explain. He said he was nervous and besides he wanted to see the country, smell the gro...
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.