Jim Dodge Quotes

#1. Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.

George Herbert

#2. You desire to tame everything, but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild.

Jim Dodge

#3. a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.

Jim Dodge

#4. After lunch Tiny returned to his fence work while Granddaddy and Fup repaired to the porch to sip a little Death Whisper, be still, and generally consider the drift of things. (55)

Jim Dodge

#5. The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

Jim Dodge

#6. It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Lois Lowry

#7. It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.

Jim Dodge

#8. Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

Jim Dodge

#9. Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Jan Eliasson

#10. When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

Marilyn Manson

#11. Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Aimee Mullins

#12. most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.

Jim Dodge

#13. It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Jim Dodge

#14. Let's get really fucked up and full of sentimental despair and then finally decide life, despite every heartbreak and anguished cry, is worth each pulse and breath.

Jim Dodge

#15. you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.

Jim Dodge

#16. you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.

Jim Dodge

#17. The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Alan Greenspan

#18. Fuck fashion in the face of need, and fuck it anyway just on good general principles.

Jim Dodge

#19. He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much time that the spirit leaped forward ... and, of course, there was no use denying the basic human delight in being right the first time.

Jim Dodge

#20. Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

Jim Dodge

#21. it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

Jim Dodge

#22. ...I don't rightly know. It just ain't possible to explain some things, maybe even most things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it - take it for what it is, and get on with your getting." (91)

Jim Dodge

#23. So - if the oldest memories could contaminate one another, could prove impossible - what good was memory at al?

Gregory Maguire