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There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.
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I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
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The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
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That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
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Why was it everything was always so goddam complicated? Even the simplest things was so goddam complicated when you come to doing them.
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You have to really work at it to write. I guess there has to be talent first; but even with talent you still have to work at it, to write.
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This place is hell. They herd you around like cattle; they order you around like dogs; they work you like horses; and they feed you like hogs.
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I've made some strides in trying to understand myself, I think. And I think that in my life I'm less afraid of being thought a coward than I used to be.
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Colour makes a difference. Gender makes a difference. Ethnicity makes a difference. Acting as if they don't will create more problems than it will solve.
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Humor itself is a kind strange thing in the first place, it's kind of a short-circuit in the brain around horror that saves us from having to face it totally.
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The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.
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It will say just about everything I have ever had to say, or will ever have to say, on the human condition of war and what it means to us, as against what we claim it means to us.
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Sometimes the air is awfully clear here. You can look off to sea and see the soft, warm, raggedy roof of clouds stretching on and on and on. It almost seems as if you can look right on into eternity.
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People change and forget to tell each other. Too bad –causes so many mistakes.
Lillian Hellman
James Jones
Born:
November 6, 1921
Died:
May 9, 1977
(aged 55)
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