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
#2. I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk
James Crumley
#3. There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.
Jim Crumley
#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
#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
#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
#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
#9. Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
Ovid
#10. There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
James Crumley
#11. If you do not know the horrors and the tragedies of life, you can be sure that you know nothing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#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
#13. Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.
Dancing Bear
James Crumley
#14. Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.
James Crumley
#15. Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.
K. Crumley
#16. Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
John Updike
#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
#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
#19. I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.
James Crumley
#20. The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.
James Crumley
#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
#22. Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.
James Crumley
#23. Maybe I will go to Paris.
Who knows? But I'll sure as hell never
Go back to Texas again
James Crumley
#24. The sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
James Crumley
#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
#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
#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
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