Miles Watson Quotes

#1. He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.

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#2. Fighting is a lot like making love. Timing is everything.

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#3. Kraut was a stand-up guy in the old tradition, in a strange way reminiscent of my father in his steadfast refusal to abandon a position once he had taken it. It was a quality I lacked, and so admired in others when they weren't using it to beat me to the canvas or break my heart.

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#4. I thought fleetingly of Anne, how the faces changed but the act was always the same, the need was always the same, no one drew a line between the sex you bought and the love you made, and your body could not tell the difference.

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#5. New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its character - like tar in an oak barrel lending its flavor to Scotch.

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#6. You have to understand something about girls, Mick. You see 'em in the winner's circle, but you'll never find horseshit on their shoes.

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#7. It wasn't fair, but maybe Tommy was right on that score. Maybe a man didn't have no right to ask for fair. Maybe a man made fair for himself.

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#8. Hell is full of polite men with bone saws.

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