James Jones Quotes

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yours...

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's la...

Warden had a theory about women: For years he had been asking them to sleep with him, the ones that ...

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue...

I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it.""I know it...

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him...

They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a l...

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. ...

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not...

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be...

Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very su...

Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the...

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage...

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundre...

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and p...

You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve....

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss ...

He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate t...

I write to reach eternity

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and ...

Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of...

...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when ...

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater t...

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

...legal procedure has always tacitly been concerned with human relations, rather than abstract just...

Every man has a right to kill himself.

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.

If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be your...

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking go...