Charles Portis Short Quotes

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I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

Charles Portis
I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.

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If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

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Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

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You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?
I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

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My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

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I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

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As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

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If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney with a mark on his face like banished Cain I would not undertake to advise others how to do it.

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You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

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Most girls like play pretties, but you like guns, don't you?
I don't care a thing in the world about guns. If I did I would have one that worked.

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Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

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I never seen anybody from Texas I couldn't shade. Get cross-ways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand of brick has fell on you. You will wisht you had been at the Alamo with Travis.

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I have since learned that Judge Isaac Parker watched all his hangings from an upper window in the Courthouse. I suppose he did this from a sense of duty. There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

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