Glendon Swarthout Quotes

#1. She'd give him time, then logic. Men's minds were like wooden axles. Now and then they needed grease.

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#2. It was as though the great black bird which had all the night nested the egg of the earth lifted its wings and let light under and then with gigantic thrust of pinion flew upwards and it was day.

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#3. Ask the way to the Ladies Room and you're "processed." Freedom of choice, my backside.

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#4. Like blind boys they found each other, and confirmed each other, and through the FM of the flesh they sent to one another impulses of courage and affection.

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#5. Plus I think it would be good for men to know they have limits.

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#6. Tears were a women's guns, to be shed when no other weapon would work.

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#7. If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity?

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#8. You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.

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#9. The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.

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#10. TV," I said, "do you believe in God?" "I believe," he said, "in Walt Disney." "You too!" We had clicked.

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#11. I would bet the most perfect peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich ever assembled that there are more well-adjusted people around today than people who aren't and I think it is damn tragic more of us do not appear in books. 3 symbiosis, n.

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