Patrick deWitt Quotes

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I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

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Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

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I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.

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Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

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You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

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Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.' At this piece of dramatic exposition, I could not hep but roll my eyes. A length of intestines would not carry the weight of a child, much less a full grown man.

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I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

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It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

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We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

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I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.

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He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

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I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself—there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

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I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

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Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

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Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said.

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Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

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I sighed. 'It doesn't matter what we do. Money comes and goes.' I shook my head. 'It doesn't matter and you know it doesn't.

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He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

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Things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

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Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

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I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

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The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

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We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on

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Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven't the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren't worth a goddamned thing.

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