Top 100 Purdy's Quotes
#1. Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that.
Kris Saknussemm
#2. One chapter of your life is over. The rest of your story is up to you. Get started!
Deb Purdy
#3. If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.
James Purdy
#4. Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.
James Purdy
#5. If you get lonesome enough, Carrie knew, you'll even call the police.
James Purdy
#6. A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.
Jedediah Purdy
#7. Ace sat down and inflated his cheeks like the wind gods in Italian paintings.
James Purdy
#8. I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried to empathize architecture as much as I could.
Steve Purdy
#9. I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness.
Steve Purdy
#10. Most people have their buttons, Eustace continued.
James Purdy
#11. Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.
Ashley Purdy
#12. For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
Al Purdy
#14. Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.
James Purdy
#15. 'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
Al Purdy
#16. Everyone is naked ... under their clothes.
Ashley Purdy
#17. I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
Al Purdy
#18. Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.
James Purdy
#19. Young girls think they know what their hearts desire, what they want the most. When really, we know nothing of love, devotion and utter loyalty. Not until we break our own hearts when we learn that what we desire is nothing like what we thought it would be. ~Papercut Doll
Alexia Purdy
#20. There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality ... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.
James Purdy
#21. Carla had the American woman's fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound.
James Purdy
#22. I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.
James Purdy
#23. In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.
Ashley Purdy
#24. There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.
James Purdy
#25. Let's shift from moralizing about and lamenting divorce to understanding that a successful marriage, no matter the length, is one that contributes to knowing ourselves better and evolving into more loving and compassionate people.
Deb Purdy
#26. The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.
James Purdy
#27. Just don't lean forward too much. It's meant for people to sit back, hold onto each other and relax. The lover's ride.
Alexia Purdy
#28. Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!
Ashley Purdy
#29. Writing is like a battle. You're often so into it you don't have any high ideals. You're just doing it. I have all these boxing prints on my walls. I always feel that's what I am, a boxer. I get my brains knocked out every so often.
James Purdy
#30. When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision.
Jolene Purdy
#31. It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.
Amy Purdy
#32. You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
Amy Purdy
#33. And yet Curt's a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that's all.
James Purdy
#34. Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation.
James Purdy
#35. It's believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.
Amy Purdy
#36. I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.
James Purdy
#37. No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.
James Purdy
#38. Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison. Now, if you like poison, why shouldn't you have it? But don't try to pretend that it's innocuous.
James Purdy
#39. He's America in action - opposed to quality.
James Purdy
#40. I think time management and dedication are the main factors along with being an organized person. To say I was highly ambitious would be an understatement. I'm never one to sit around, I always have to be creating in various facets to keep myself entertained.
Ashley Purdy
#41. We finally got our drinks and, clasping the cold glasses, we stared into each other's eyes, the night ahead so full of possibilities
Alexia Purdy
#42. I've always been able to vomit as silently as a ninja; it's a questionable talent and a poor party trick.
Jason Purdy
#43. New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.
James Purdy
#44. None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.
James Purdy
#45. A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup..
Ashley Purdy
#46. Being unique is what's cool man. Being normal? What's that? That's a setting on a washing machine. Nobody wants to be that.
Ashley Purdy
#47. The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.
James Purdy
#48. Why did I not remember, when I looked so deep into his eyes, that blue can be such a cold color? Why did I not notice that while I was saying so much, he was saying so little? I was a fool; I saw only the charmer and missed the snake entirely.
Brandy Purdy
#49. Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.
James Purdy
#50. That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was missing from their own lives, the things they knew, no matter how much or how hard they might hope and dream and scheme, they would never have.
Brandy Purdy
#51. I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
Al Purdy
#53. You smell good. It's ... it's nice to breathe you in again. I missed it, she said.
Alexia Purdy
#54. We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles
Amy Purdy
#55. He was a different kind of poison. The slow, scorching, addictive kind.
Alexia Purdy
#56. You gotta believe you can accomplish anything, and those who believe that they can accomplish anything, most likely will.
Ashley Purdy
#57. Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.
Ashley Purdy
#58. I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.
Cecil Purdy
#59. I'm pretty open to all music. Its pretty funny because I've spent time in Germany and now I'm in Dallas where Country is a big thing. I used to hate it but now I can actually go through a song.
Steve Purdy
#60. And you you
bitch no irritating
questions re love and permanence only
an unrolling lifetime here
between your rocking thighs
and the semblance of motion
Al Purdy
#61. She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.
James Purdy
#62. The worse the author, the more he is known.
James Purdy
#63. As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.
Ashley Purdy
#64. Great books, if long enough and full of topical description and contemporary comment, were now coming into even wider public favor. The lengthier and fuller of comment, the better.
James Purdy
#65. We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.
Amy Purdy
#66. I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.
James Purdy
#67. Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads high.
James Purdy
#68. This is me figuring good behavior is for someone much younger.
Kestrel
Sarah Purdy Gilman
#69. I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.
James Purdy
#70. The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who's who straight. So don't be surprised if they don't remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.
James Purdy
#71. At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
Al Purdy
#72. Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.
Ashley Purdy
#73. If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell.
James Purdy
#75. Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.
James Purdy
#76. Don't you believe in death?" I yelled at him. "No," he answers, "and I don't believe in time either ...
James Purdy
#77. My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we won't need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world and be by ourselves always together forever and a day.
James Purdy
#78. Maybe that's why I was so afraid of Sasha's love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting.
~Piper - 'Breathe Me
Alexia Purdy
#80. There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.
James Purdy
#81. We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.
Amy Purdy
#82. I'll probably just read a book. I've got like a million of them in my to-be-read pile.
Rebekah L. Purdy
#83. The to-dos were sordid rather than exciting, perhaps because nearly everybody was approaching middle age.
James Purdy
#85. I would, but I can't. Like a cord between us, it binds me to you. where you go, i must follow. if you go to far, i am compelled to search for you until i find you. if i try to run, i would freeze in my steps and be made to turn back.
Alexia Purdy
#86. I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.
Steve Purdy
#87. I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever.
Ashley Purdy
#88. 'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.
Jolene Purdy
#89. And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.
Al Purdy
#90. Who made the 999 call?"
"Dunno," said Purdy. "Mobile, probably."
It's officers like Purdy that give the Metropolitan Police its sterling reputation for customer service that makes us the envy of the civilised world.
Ben Aaronovitch
#91. For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.
Steve Purdy
#92. But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.
James Purdy
#93. I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.
Ashley Purdy
#94. Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.
James Purdy
#95. Breathe. It's only a bad day, not a bad life
Ashley Purdy
#96. In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
Al Purdy
#97. What's in your past doesn't matter. Neither does what you plan to do at some future time. What matters is what you do with this moment. You have the power to change your life for the better starting right this minute.
Deb Purdy
#98. What is up with this Ashley Purdy day tomorrow,I see? Do I need to dress up as myself?!
Ashley Purdy
#99. It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.
Jedediah Purdy
#100. Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
Ashley Purdy
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