List of James Jones Quotes

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James Jones
Total Quotes 8
Up until then it had only been himself. up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. nobody else much entered into it. after the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. up to then he had been the young idealist. but he could not stay there. not after the other people entered into it.
Love Life Men People
If i never meet you in this life let me feel the lack a glance from your eyes then my life will be yours
Eye This Life Glances
The little bit you and me might change the world," malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. we'd never see it." "but it'd be there.
Years World Littles
He knew how to handle pain. you had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. you let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. then you took a deep breath and dove in and let yourself sink down it clear to the bottom. and after you had been down inside pain a while you found that like with cold water it was not nearly as cold as you had thought it was when your muscles were cringing themselves away from the outside edge of it as you moved around it trying to get up your nerve. he knew pain.
Pain Lying Moving
War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. it poisons the soul.
Dog War Men
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
Men Honest Illusion
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.
Writing Men Self
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
Would Be Virtue Pessimist
  • Born: November 6, 1921
  • Died: May 9, 1977
  • Occupation: Author
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