Leduff Charlie Quotes

#1. Oh yeah? Go fuck yourself.
He hung up.
I called back ten minutes later, thinking it was an appropriate amount of time to have gone and fucked oneself.

Charlie LeDuff

#2. Sorrow is dangerous.

Kelly Barnhill

#3. Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

Charlie LeDuff

#4. He don't read. You know he doesn't have a book in his office? Not a fucking book in the shelves. Ain't that some shit? (Adolph Mongo speaking of Kwame Kilpatrick)

Charlie LeDuff

#5. The people in Detroit are poor, but most of them are good. There are things going on here beyond an ordinary person's control. These people are hungry and they have no job. No possibility of a job. They're stuck here.

Charlie LeDuff

#6. What happened to your stammer?"
"I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people."
"No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Desperation, she said, feels like someone's reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts.

Charlie LeDuff

#8. I'm always prepared for the worst.

Augusten Burroughs

#9. At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.

Charlie LeDuff

#10. An earthmover was there, but instead of placing a casket into the ground, it was taking one out.
They're removing the dead. Taking him to the suburbs.
White flight. Black flight. Now dead flight.

Charlie LeDuff

#11. With us [ ... ] the enemy isn't over the hill or in any specific direction. It's all around.

Markus Zusak

#12. Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

Charlie LeDuff

#13. There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

Charlie LeDuff

#14. Don't worry about a thing," Tom said.
But I worried about all the things.

Melody J. Bremen

#15. In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

Charlie LeDuff

#16. Somehow, the city of promise had become a scrap yard of dreams. But fighters do what they do best when they've

Charlie LeDuff

#17. I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

Bob Dole

#18. If we were poets, we'd starve on words.

Charlie LeDuff

#19. But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

Charlie LeDuff

#20. Children are dying in this city because they're too fucking poor to keep warm. Put that in your fucking notebook.
I put it in my fucking notebook.

Charlie LeDuff

#21. Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

Charlie LeDuff

#22. He understood that everybody's somebody to someone. He

Charlie LeDuff

#23. It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

Mike Farrell

#24. We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

Charlie LeDuff

#25. A writer wasn't a body, just a byline. My words would be sharp and spiky, punchy and pointed; my stories would be swift and lean, sleek and enviable, moving fast and hitting hard. I would not, I vowed, write like a fat girl.

Jennifer Weiner

#26. Where was the police? Where was anybody?

Charlie LeDuff

#27. He called himself her pimp, except for the fact, he said, that he didn't like standing in the night air.

Charlie LeDuff

#28. The only difference between Detroit and the Third World in terms of corruption is Detroit don't have no goats in the streets.

Charlie LeDuff

#29. And it is awful here, there is no other way to say it. But I believe that Detroit is America's city. It was the vanguard of our way up, just as it is the vanguard of our way down. And one hopes the vanguard of our way up again. Detroit is Pax Americana ... America's way of life was built here.

Charlie LeDuff

#30. And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents.
Journalism.

Charlie LeDuff

#31. The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power ...

Rajneesh