Jim Lynch Quotes

#1. One of them would hurl a rock, then a few more. Suddenly it's raining rocks. Ya with me? That's their cover, see, because no matter how big a weapon you come out the door with, you still don't want to catch a rock in the face. A sawed-off won't stop a rock, follow?

Jim Lynch

#2. People usually take decades to sort out their view of the universe, if they bother to sort at all. I did my sorting during one freakish summer in which i was ambushed by science, fame and suggestions of the divine.

Jim Lynch

#3. The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.

Jim Lynch

#4. Know something?" Brandon said. "I think the most interesting people I'll meet these days will be criminals - or people about to become criminals.

Jim Lynch

#5. When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

Jim Lynch

#6. I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.

Jim Lynch

#7. It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.

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#8. ...that's the nature of marine life and the inland bays I grew up on. You'd have to be a scientist, a poet and a comedian to hope to describe it all accurately, and even then you'd often fall short.

Jim Lynch

#9. I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.

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#10. Some people blamed his oddities on his dyslexia, which was so severe that one giddy pediatrician called it a gift: While he might never learn how to spell or read better than the average fourth grader, he'd always see things the rest of us couldn't.

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#11. I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

Jim Lynch

#12. See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life "unseeing." I do that some days ... I think it's easier to see when you're a kid. We're not in a hurry to get anywhere and we don't have those long to-do lists you guys have.

Jim Lynch

#13. The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you.

Jim Lynch

#14. Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.

Jim Lynch

#15. Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.

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#16. I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. "Pretty fucking often

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#17. True love is a tiny pearl, easily imagined and easily lost.

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#18. Strangers, he remembered, can tell you how old you are without trying. The looks you get or don't get let you know exactly where you're at, where you're headed and where you can never go again.

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#19. As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

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#20. If you don't feel any connection to the ocean, then ask yourself why your tears, blood and saliva contain about the same percentage of salt.

Jim Lynch

#21. I'm not worried about you because you don't get it your own way. You never have, and believe it or not, that makes you extraordinary.

Jim Lynch