Top 27 Crumley's Quotes

#1. 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

Crumley's Quotes #26766
#2. I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #168462
#3. There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.

Jim Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #208370
#4. Home is where you hang your hangover.

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #377818
#5. 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

Crumley's Quotes #378167
#6. 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

Crumley's Quotes #390380
#7. I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

Courtney Love

Crumley's Quotes #434249
#8. 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

Crumley's Quotes #483830
#9. Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

Ovid

Crumley's Quotes #520195
#10. There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #605915
#11. If you do not know the horrors and the tragedies of life, you can be sure that you know nothing!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Crumley's Quotes #997959
#12. Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.

Sam Keen

Crumley's Quotes #1009020
#13. Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.
Dancing Bear

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #1011661
#14. Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #1032834
#15. Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.

K. Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #1061201
#16. Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

John Updike

Crumley's Quotes #1082003
#17. 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

Crumley's Quotes #1205644
#18. ...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

Crumley's Quotes #1209522
#19. I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #1290811
#20. The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #1350782
#21. 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

Crumley's Quotes #1391848
#22. Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #1484238
#23. Maybe I will go to Paris.
Who knows? But I'll sure as hell never
Go back to Texas again

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #1495050
#24. The sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

James Crumley

Crumley's Quotes #1496411
#25. Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

Raymond E. Feist

Crumley's Quotes #1592379
#26. 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

Crumley's Quotes #1731256
#27. 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

Crumley's Quotes #1780770

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