Top 31 Crumley Quotes
#1. You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.
Terry Pratchett
#2. Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.
Dancing Bear
James Crumley
#4. The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#5. I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times.
James Crumley
#6. Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.
James Crumley
#7. The sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
James Crumley
#8. Maybe I will go to Paris.
Who knows? But I'll sure as hell never
Go back to Texas again
James Crumley
#9. Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.
James Crumley
#10. Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.
James Crumley
#11. The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.
James Crumley
#12. I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.
James Crumley
#13. It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.
Etienne Francois, Duc De Choiseul
#14. ...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.
Jim Crumley
#15. I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead
that's environmentally sound.
James Crumley
#16. Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.
K. Crumley
#17. Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.
James Crumley
#18. Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.
Rockne S. O'Bannon
#19. A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.
Nicolas Cage
#21. To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell
#22. I think an artist might feel the same way when they place a brush to a canvas." She looked down at the design. "Even if the end result isn't beautiful for anyone but the artist, the journey is worth the effort.
Catherine Bybee
#23. I like to remind people what radical means
'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.
Sonia Johnson
#24. There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
James Crumley
#25. I chuckled like Aldo Ray. If I had to endure his l'homme du monde act, he had to suffer my jaded alcoholic private eye.
James Crumley
#26. When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
James Crumley
#28. What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?
Peter Diamandis
#29. There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.
Jim Crumley
#30. I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk
James Crumley
#31. I didn't know what was going on, didn't understand a bit of it, didn't like any of it. Maybe that's why the first thing I packed was my guns. If your brain won't work, wave a gun around. Sometimes that helps.
James Crumley
