No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
You don't get the pint, Woodrow, I've walked the earth in my pride all these years. If that's lost, then let the rest be lost with it. There's certain things my vanity won't abide.
It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
Figured Godwin
I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.
I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something.--Sheriff Toots Burns.
Love’s a terrible price to pay for company, ain’t it, Matty? Caleb said. I won’t pay it, myself. I’d rather do without the company.
It doesn’t do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to, Clara said. It’s just a waste.
I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot, Nellie said. But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.
I miss Gus...I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain't here. My ears sort of get empty.
Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting.
Was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation.
I'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.
No half measures, he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a crest.
My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits, Augustus said. And getting drunk on the porch.
A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.
Woman’s love is like the morning dew, it’s just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose.
All vessels leaked to some degree.