I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.
I think I can, Lee answered Samuel. I think this is the best-known story in the world because it is everybody’s story. I think it is the symbol story of the human soul. I’m feeling my way now—don’t ju...
I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make...
I see hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. Hundreds of them. They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every d...
I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be gl...
I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.
I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
He’s a nice fella, said Slim. Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.
He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?
He lived in a strange, silent house and looked out of it through calm eyes. He was a stranger to all the world, but he was not lonely.
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.
For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter...
Do you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that thinking of a friend and meeting him are connected. But does thinking draw him or his com...
Defeat is a momentary thing. A defeat doesn't last. We were defeated and now we attack. Defeat means nothing. Can't you understand that? Do you know what they are whispering behind doors?
By whipping himself he protected himself against whipping by someone else.
But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his...
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?